LIVERMORE, California (KPIX) — The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) unveiled its $600 million supercomputer, “El Capitan,” after about eight years of research and building.

Last month, the University of Florida’s Board of Trustees approved a $24 million investment to upgrade UF’s supercomputer, HiPerGator. When NVIDIA, the AI computing company that built the machine, ...