El Capitan Becomes World's Fastest Supercomputer, Overtakes Frontier
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AMD has surpassed Nvidia in the November Top500 supercomputer rankings, largely due to the new "El Capitan" system, which features AMD's hybrid CPU-GPU compute engines. El Capitan, built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has achieved a peak theoretical performance of 2,746.4 petaflops, making it the most powerful supercomputer on the list. AMD's GPUs now account for 72.1% of the new performance added to the rankings, marking a significant shift in the high-performance computing landscape.
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