Newswise — Los Alamos National Laboratory has chosen HPE and NVIDIA as companions on two new supercomputers to be constructed, delivered and put in within the coming years, with HPE chosen because the prime contractor. The supercomputers, named Mission and Vision, will help the essential modeling and simulation that underpins nationwide safety science in addition to elementary science analysis and synthetic intelligence purposes throughout the National Nuclear Security Administration complicated. The challenge shall be supported by means of anticipated future funding, contingent upon the supply of appropriations.
“NNSA has a proud history of applying science and technology to national security challenges. The next generation of NNSA supercomputers marks a significant milestone in ensuring America’s leadership in the global AI race,” mentioned NNSA Administrator Brandon Williams. “Thanks to the Trump Administration, Mission and Vision will incorporate cutting-edge capabilities that will drive analysis and predictions crucial for effective, safe, and reliable security.”
“The Mission and Vision systems represent a significant investment in our national security science and basic science capabilities,” mentioned Thom Mason, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. “HPE and NVIDIA are experienced partners in this space, capable of delivering technology that offers the capabilities Los Alamos needs to fulfill its essential role, especially as we lead the way in integrating AI into the modeling and simulation at the heart of our mission. These systems are purpose-built for supercomputing in the AI era.”
Both Mission and Vision shall be constructed by HPE for Los Alamos National Laboratory. The methods shall be primarily based on the brand new HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000 geared up with the next-generation NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, which mixes the corporate’s NVIDIA Vera CPUs with NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and interconnected with NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking, named in honor of pioneering American astronomer Vera Rubin. Direct liquid-cooled and purpose-built for exascale methods, the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform is designed for AI period supercomputing.
Focused on nationwide safety and elementary science
“Mission” is the fifth Advanced Technology System (ATS) in NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing program. It is designed to help nationwide safety science. When it’s operational in 2027, working completely within the labeled area, Mission will exchange the Lab’s present Crossroads system, leveraging its HPC and AI capabilities to help the modeling and simulation efforts.
The Mission supercomputer represents the primary NNSA high-performance computing system within the post-exascale period. Mission’s time-to-solution capabilities, particularly with the power to run a number of simulations at one time, shall be unleashed on the big and complicated simulations.
The “Vision” system will construct on the success of the Venado supercomputer, put in at Los Alamos in early 2024, and also will be a product of a collaboration between HPE and NVIDIA. Like Mission, the Vision supercomputer shall be powered by the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform within the HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000 structure, providing the ability, pace and the AI functionality to drive elementary science at Los Alamos. The Laboratory expects Vision to be in operation at Los Alamos in 2027.
The Vision system shall be obtainable for unclassified work. It will speed up efforts in Laboratory Directed Research and Development tasks together with nationwide safety, supplies and nuclear science, vitality modeling, and biomedical analysis. The system’s AI capabilities shall be much like these of Mission.
The Mission and Vision methods will characteristic multi-tenant capabilities and may accommodate a number of workloads and consumer teams on the similar time. This performance will streamline operations and permit for extra analysis to occur concurrently.
Codesign course of helps supercomputer packages
Los Alamos entered a codesign course of with NVIDIA and HPE for the Venado system, put in in 2024, and that collaboration continued within the improvement of Mission and Vision. Codesign attracts upon experience throughout components of computing and the science served by computing to construct an efficient system.
“Mission and Vision deepen our longstanding partnership and joint innovation with Los Alamos that continues to advance research and enable new engineering for the lab,” mentioned Trish Damkroger, senior vice chairman and normal supervisor, HPC & AI Infrastructure Solutions at HPE. “We are proud to expand our partnership and deliver some of the first systems featuring the new HPE Cray GX supercomputing architecture that will support scientific discovery and help solve important challenges.”
“Los Alamos has long advanced the frontier of scientific discovery,” mentioned Ian Buck, vice chairman of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA. “With Mission and Vision, powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI, Los Alamos will push the boundaries of simulation and generative intelligence—advancing science and pioneering the next era of high-performance research for the nation.”
Details on challenge timelines and completion shall be obtainable because the initiative is finalized.
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