Sandia National Laboratories has announced the arrival of its newest most unconventional supercomputer. Designed through a collaboration between Sandia and NextSilicon, the “Spectra” prototype ….
Los Alamos Lab Launches Frontier AI Models on Venado Supercomputer
August 29, 2025 by
Los Alamos, NM, Aug. 28, 2025—After moving to a classified network earlier this year, the Venado supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory is now running OpenAI’s latest o-series reasoning models to accelerate national security research. Venado, which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, is the 19th-fastest supercomputer in the world and serves as a shared resource for researchers […]
NNSA Deploys Cornelis CN5000 Fabric for ‘Lynx’ Cluster at Livermore
July 24, 2025 by
Cornelis Networks announced its CN5000 is being deployed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration to power the 952-node “Lynx” cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
insideHPC Vanguard: NNSA’s Si Hammond and the ‘Almost Impossible’
November 26, 2024 by
In our continuing series on HPC-AI Vanguards, in which we recognize young members of the HPC-AI community showing potential to become industry leaders of tomorrow, we here profile Si Hammond, Federal Program Manager at the National ….
@HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New TOP500 List of Top Supercomputers
November 18, 2024 by
SC24 here in Atlanta is off to a great start with more than 17,000 attendees (a 21 percent increase over 2023), 480 exhibitors from 29 countries and a new TOP500 list that features a new champion supercomputer!
HPC News Bytes 20241028: US Chip Fab Beats Taiwan, Tech and Danish Royalty Unveil AI Supercomputer, White Houe Initiative on AI National Security Risk
October 28, 2024 by
Good Halloween Week to you! From the always-active world of HPC-AI here’s a quick ….
DOE and NNSA in Effort to Harness AI National Security Mission
October 25, 2024 by
WASHINGTON, D.C.—This week, the White House issued a national security memorandum (NSM) on artificial intelligence. “Recognizing that advances at the frontier of AI will have significant implications for national security and foreign policy, the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are leading work to help understand and mitigate the risks […]
Breaking the ICE at Livermore: ICECap to Use Exascale Fusion Simulations for Digital Design
October 17, 2024 by
A multidisciplinary team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers is combining the power of exascale computing with AI, advanced workflows and GPU-acceleration with the intent to advance scientific innovation and revolutionize digital design.
New Commodity Supercomputing Clusters Deployed at NNSA Labs Claim TOP500 Spots
November 17, 2023 by
Three of the newest National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) commodity computing clusters recently deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) are among the most powerful supercomputing systems in the world, Top500 organizers announced Monday. Funded under the second Commodity Technology Systems contract (CTS-2) by NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program, […]
Data Days Brings Department of Energy Labs Together for Discussions on Data Management and More
November 9, 2023 by
Data researchers, developers, data managers and program managers from the Department of Energy national laboratories visited Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Oct. 24-26 to discuss the latest in data management, sharing and accessibility at the 2023 DOE Data Days (D3) workshop. The three-day event, sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Office of Defense Nuclear […]
