AMD's supercomputer 'El Capitan' is ranked number one in the world, with half of the top 10 being AMD, and Fugaku is ranked 6th



In the November 2024 edition of the 'TOP500' supercomputer processing performance ranking, '

El Capitan ', equipped with an AMD chip, took first place for the first time. In second place was ' Frontier ', also made by AMD, and five of the top 10 supercomputers were made by AMD.

November 2024 | TOP500
https://top500.org/lists/top500/2024/11/

El Capitan achieves top spot, Frontier and Aurora follow behind | TOP500
https://top500.org/news/el-capitan-achieves-top-spot-frontier-and-aurora-follow-behind/

AMD Accelerates Exascale Computing to New Heights Powering the Fastest Supercomputer Ever, El Capitan
https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-11-18-amd-accelerates-exascale-computing-to-new-heights-.html

El Capitan is a supercomputer jointly developed by AMD, the US Department of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and is based on AMD's high performance computing (HPC) and AI chip ' Instinct MI300A '. Research and development of El Capitan is progressing with the aim of achieving processing performance of more than 2 exaflops, and in November 2024 it recorded 1.742 exaflops, making it the world's number one supercomputer.



The top 10 rankings are as follows, with AMD-made supercomputers taking five of the top 10 spots.

Ranking name Major Manufacturers Number of cores Effective performance value (PFLOPS) Theoretical performance value (PFLOPS) Power consumption (kW)
No.1 El Capitan AMD 11,039,616 1742.00 2746.38 29,581
No.2 Frontier AMD 9,066,176 1353.00 2055.72 24,607
No.3 Aurora Intel 9,264,128 1012.00 1980.01 38,698
No.4 Eagle NVIDIA 2,073,600 561.20 846.84 not clear
No.5 HPC6 AMD 3,143,520 477.90 606.97 8461
No.6 Fugaku Fujitsu 7,630,848 442.01 537.21 29,899
No.7 Alps NVIDIA 2,121,600 434.90 574.84 7124
No.8 LUMI AMD 2,752,704 379.70 531.51 7107
No.9 Leonardo Intel 1,824,768 241.20 306.31 7494
No.10 Tuolumne AMD 1,161,216 208.10 288.88 3387


In response to the TOP500 results, AMD CEO Lisa Su commented, 'AMD products are installed in five of the world's top 10 and 21 of the top 50. We are grateful for the cooperation of HPE, LLNL and the Department of Energy!'




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