El Capitan was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy's CORAL-2 program to replace the Sierra supercomputer, deployed in 2018. This supercomputer is still in use and was the 14th most ...

Using LLNL's Sierra supercomputer, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) team has made significant progress in understanding how microscopic hot spots form in insensitive high explosives ...

The Summit and Sierra supercomputers had been announced in 2014 in a $325m deal between the US Department of Energy and IBM. The first to be delivered, Summit, will use IBM Power9 microprocessors ...