The world's fastest nuke-simulating supercomputer is now online, boasting peak performance of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second and other numbers my pea …
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has announced that the world's fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, ...
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World's Fastest Supercomputer Goes Online, Focusing On Classified Research
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LNNL) in California is now home to the fastest supercomputer in the world. Dubbed ...
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World's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' goes online — it will be used to secure the US nuclear stockpile and in other classified research
The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third ...
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US lab creates world’s brightest X-ray source with 2x intensity for fusion research
US scientists create the world's brightest X-ray source using metal foam and the NIF laser, with potential applications in ...
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Inside ‘El Capitan’ the Most Powerful Supercomputer Ever Built. It Will Simulate Nuclear Weapons
With its 2.746 exaFLOPS peak performance, “El Capitan” outpaces every other supercomputer on the planet, including the former titleholder, Frontier, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For perspective, ...
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National Ignition Facility laser at LLNL creates world's brightest X-ray source
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World's fastest supercomputer, "El Capitan," goes online to safeguard US nuclear weapons
El Capitan can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the National Nuclear Security Administration's first exascale supercomputer. It's the world's third exascale machine ...
Four takeaways from the Los Alamos National Laboratory 'State of the Lab'
Los Alamos National Laboratory is planning to further the field of artificial intelligence and will increase its capacity for manufacturing new plutonium pits in the coming year, according to Lab ...
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El Capitan supercomputer is ready to handle nuclear stockpile and AI workflows
The fastest supercomputer in the world, housed at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, was dedicated to U.S. national security ...
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Frothy silver foam and fusion-grade lasers create world's brightest X-ray
A frothy breakthrough at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), using lasers with a silver metal foam that's as light as air, has created the brightest yet X-ray source ever, twice as ...
Nuclear fusion could one day be a viable clean energy source – but big engineering challenges stand in the way
Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they’ll still need to overcome ...
Nuclear fusion could be the future of clean energy if it can overcome these hurdles
The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century ...