US Unveils El Capitan, World's Fastest Supercomputer, For Classified Tasks

The world's most powerful supercomputer, capable of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second, has been unveiled at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, designed primarily to maintain the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and run other classified simulations. The $600 million system, named El Capitan, consists of 87 computer racks weighing 1.3 million pounds and draws 30 megawatts of power.
Built by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise using AMD chips, it operates alongside a smaller system c