AMD Says El Capitan, Powered By The AMD Instinct MI300A APU, Becomes The Second AMD Supercomputer To Surpass The ExaScale Barrier, Placing #1 On The Top500 List; Continues Setting The Standard For HPC, Powering 50% Of The Top Ten Fastest And 40% Of The Ten Most Energy Efficient Supercomputers In The World

Today, AMD (NASDAQ: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.

The El Capitan supercomputer, housed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), powered by AMD Instinct MI300A APUs and built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), is now the fastest supercomputer in the world with a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) score of 1.742 exaflops based on the latest Top500 list. Both El Capitan and the Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Lab claimed numbers 18 and 22, respectively, on the Green500 list, showcasing the impressive capabilities of the AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct GPUs to drive leadership performance and energy efficiency for HPC workloads.