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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 ...
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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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 ...
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El Capitan: World’s fastest supercomputer to secure US nuclear arsenal powers up
El Capitan' is the world's fastest supercomputer, achieving 1.742 exaFLOPS in the High-Performance Linpack benchmark.
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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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National Ignition Facility laser at LLNL creates world's brightest X-ray source
"Your dentist's X-ray machine creates an electron beam that is crashed into a heavy metal plate; the electrons in the beam ...
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Inside the World's Fastest Supercomputer and Its Mission to Test Nuclear Weapons
We go inside Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for a rare look at the El Capitan supercomputer, which is slated to begin ...
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Engineers develop polycatenated architected materials for innovative 3D designs
A team of engineers at the California Institute of Technology, working with colleagues from Lawrence Livermore National ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Tech editor takes close snaps of world's fastest supercomputer and lives to publish them
The editor of a tech site took some revealing snaps of the inside of El Capitan, the world's fastest supercomputer.