Construction Begins on El Capitan, the AMD Instinct MI300 Powered 2-exaFLOP Supercomputer

We have recently seen how Intel has finished building its Aurora supercomputera supercomputer made up of more than 67,700 Intel MAX Ponte Vecchio accelerator cards. But the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LNLL) also had pending building a supercomputer, El Capitanwhich will also reach two power ExaFLOPs thanks to the accelerator cards of AMD Instinct MI300. This means that El Capitan can perform up to two quintillion floating point operations per second.

This El Capitan supercomputer construction is starting now, unlike Intel’s Aurora which is already finished. El Capitan is expected be completed and operational by 2024. In the images you can see the racks full of these AMD Instinct IM300 that have 24 Zen 4 cores along with AMD CDNA3 architecture and a total of 128GB of the fastest HBM3 memory. The accelerators are arranged in groups of 4 at each HPE and will feature water cooling technology.

Intel’s Aurora supercomputer featured 220TB of storage and a bandwidth of 31 TB/s, but unfortunately This data is not known for this El Capitan computer, which will surely see the light later while its construction continues. If it is known that its consumption will be approximately 40 MW.

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