El Capitan has achieved the top spot on the latest TOP500 list, which ranks the world’s most powerful supercomputing systems.

The AMD-powered El Capitan system debuted as the most powerful system on the list with an High-Performance Linpack (HPL) score of 1.742 Exaflop/s, the announcement states. It is officially the third system to achieve exascale capability – after Frontier and Aurora, which have now moved to the No. 2 and No. 3 spots, respectively.

Here are the top five systems:

1. El Capitan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California) – The HPE Cray EX255a system has 11,039,616 combined CPU and GPU cores and is based on AMD 4th generation EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI300A accelerators. It uses the Cray Slingshot 11 network for data transfer. El Capitan also achieved an energy efficiency of 58.89 Gigaflops/watt, placing it at No. 18 on the GREEN500 list.
2. Frontier (Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee) – This HPE Cray EX system achieved 1.353 Exaflop/s using 8,699,904 cores.
3. Aurora (Argonne Leadership Computing Facility in Illinois) – This Intel-built system, based on the HPE Cray EX, achieved 1.012 Exaflop/s.
4. Eagle (Installed by Microsoft in its Azure cloud) – This Microsoft NDv5 system achieved an HPL score of 561 Petaflop/s using Xeon Platinum 8480C processors and Nvidia H100 accelerators.
5. HPC6 (Eni S.p.A center in Ferrera Erbognone in Italy) – The HPE Cray EX235a system achieved 477.9 Petaflop/s using 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs optimized for HPC and AI.

Read more at TOP500.