“The world’s most powerful supercomputer was officially dedicated in California Thursday, with the CEOs of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and AMD on hand to celebrate their handiwork.

Why it matters: El Capitan — as the $600 million supercomputer is known — will handle an array of classified tasks aimed at securing the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons and conducting a variety of other unspecified simulations…

El Capitan is capable of peak performance of 2.79 exaflops, or 2.79 quintillion calculations per second.

That’s equivalent to the processing power of about 1 million of today’s high-end smartphones working simultaneously.”

From Axios.