$600M Cray supercomputer will tower above the rest — to build better nukes

guest · Aug 13, 2019

$600M Cray supercomputer will tower above the rest — to build better nukes
August 13, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/13/6...l-tower-above-the-rest-to-build-better-nukes/

Cray has been commissioned by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to create a supercomputer head and shoulders above all the rest, with the contract valued at some $600 million.

El Capitan will be the third “exascale” computer being built by Cray for the U.S. government, the other two being Aurora for Argonne National Lab and Frontier for Oak Ridge. These computers are built on a whole new architecture called Shasta, in which Cray intends to combine the speed and scale of high performance computing with the easy administration of cloud-based enterprise tools.

Due for delivery in 2022, El Capitan will be operating on the order of 1.5 exaflops, or floating point operations per second, a measure of calculation often used to track supercomputer performance. Exa denotes a quintillion of something.
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