Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it will deliver the world’s fastest exascale-class supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at a record-breaking speed of 2 exaflops – 10X faster than today’s most powerful supercomputer.
The new system, which the DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has named El Capitan, is expected to be delivered in early 2023 and will be managed and hosted by LLNL for use by the three NNSA national laboratories: LLNL, Sandia National Laboratories, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
HPE is optimizing the DOE’s El Capitan to power complex and time-consuming 3D exploratory simulations for NNSA missions that today’s state-of-the-art supercomputers cannot successfully manage.
