What Do They Run on America's Fastest SuperComputer?

In July I paid a visit to Lawrence Livermore National Labs which hosts the fastest supercomputer in the US, a couple of months earlier it was the fastest supercomputer in the world, but Moore's law means computer supremacy is fleeting. El Capitan is an exaflop scale system, meaning is can run 10^18 calculations per second (a billion, billion), and this is measured by benchmarks that require tight cooperation between it's thousands of cores. There are datacenters with many more processors, but those may not perform at the same level because of the interconnectedness required for this kind of task. So, I wanted to look at the whole installation from bottom to top to make it clear that a supercomputer is more than having huge numbers of processors in a datacenter. My son Orion helped extensively with shooting this video! Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley