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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According to the list, China’s most powerful supercomputer has a maximum Linpack performance of 487.94 petaflops, a figure that would place it fifth in the most recent edition of the Top500 list of ...

“El Capitan” is the world’s fastest supercomputer and the third exascale computer on the planet. The world’s fastest ...

Its specifications suggest it is the fifth-most powerful supercomputer in the world, according to the annual TOP500 rankings. The Italian firm is notable in that, unlike some of its peers ...

All in all, Voltaire switches are powering a quarter of the total compute power created by all of the 500 supercomputers on the list.” The closely watched TOP500 list, issued twice a year on ...

The U.S. is home to five of the ten most powerful supercomputers in the world, according to the 64th edition of the TOP500. The top three supercomputers, all based in the U.S., are classified by ...