All hail the new king. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has announced that the world's fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, has been officially launched, which strikes me as a hell of a nervy first boot.
You always hold your breath the first few times you fire up a freshly-built gaming PC, don't you? However, the mighty El Capitan is not concerned with the relatively trivial task of rendering pixels for your entertainment (via Live Science). Instead, its current primary task is to help researchers simulate the safety, security, and reliability of the US nuclear weapon stockpile.
