With President-elect Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO/newly-minted efficiency czar Elon Musk looking on, SpaceX launched the world's most powerful rocket today on its sixth test flight — a ground-shaking sub-orbital launch of a gargantuan Super Heavy-Starship to evaluate critical upgrades.

With a sustained compute power of 1.7 exaflops and a peak of over 2.7 exaflops, El Capitan knocks previous leader Frontier to second on the list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. El Capitan was built by HPE for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to simulate nuclear weapons tests.

AMD powers the El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with Instinct MI300A APUs, the faster supercomputer in the world.

El Capitan was built by HPE and features over 11M cores by way of AMD's EPYC processors a MI300A AI accelerators.

AMD has maintained its leadership in high-performance computing by powering El Capitan, the fastest supercomputer globally, for the sixth year in a row on the Top 500 list.

When it comes to exaflops it is the floppiest El Capitan has been ranked as the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It boasts a benchmark performance of 1.742 exaflops, or 1.742 quintillion calculations per second,

Today, AMD showcased its ongoing high performance computing (HPC) leadership at Supercomputing 2024 by powering the world’s fastest supercomputer for the sixth straight Top500 list.