Operational in 2027, Mission will permit AI capabilities with a deal with nationwide safety science. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- HPE, NVIDIA to associate on new Mission and Vision methods
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) 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 vital modeling and simulation that underpins nationwide safety science in addition to elementary science analysis and synthetic intelligence functions throughout the National Nuclear Security Administration advanced. The venture might be supported by means of anticipated future funding, contingent upon the provision 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,” NNSA Administrator Brandon Williams mentioned. “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,” LANL Director Thom Mason mentioned. “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 might be constructed by HPE for Los Alamos National Laboratory. The methods might be primarily based on the brand new HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000 outfitted 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, operating completely within the categorised house, Mission will change 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, might be unleashed on the big and sophisticated 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 might be powered by the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform within the HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000 structure, providing the facility, 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 might be out there for unclassified work. It will speed up efforts in Laboratory Directed Research and Development initiatives together with nationwide safety, supplies and nuclear science, power modeling, and biomedical analysis. The system’s AI capabilities might be just like these of Mission.
The Mission and Vision methods will function multi-tenant capabilities and might 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.
Vision will ship AI capabilities that drive elementary, open science. Courtesy/LANL
Codesign course of helps supercomputer applications
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 growth of Mission and Vision. Codesign attracts upon experience throughout parts 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 venture timelines and completion might be out there because the initiative is finalized.