The AMD-powered El Capitan supercomputer, housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is now ranked as the world’s fastest supercomputer.
Built by HPE, the supercomputer uses AMD Instinct MI300A accelerated processing units (APUs).
The LLNL is using the supercomputer for nuclear security.
Separately, IBM and AMD have announced a collaboration to deploy AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators as a service on IBM Cloud.
Through the collaboration, support for AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators is being made available within IBM’s Watsonx AI and data platform, as well as through the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI inferencing platform.

AMD pushes GPU advantage with HPC top spot