Note: Single-source report; awaiting corroboration.
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced plans to develop two new supercomputers, Mission and Vision, at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Both systems will be built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and powered by the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, according to an NNSA statement.
The first Vera Rubin central processing unit (CPU) server, based on NVIDIA’s Olympus core, is scheduled to arrive at LANL for testing this summer. This server supports both high-performance computing (HPC) and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, aiming to accelerate scientific and engineering projects at the lab.
NNSA Administrator Brandon Williams emphasized the importance of these partnerships for meeting the agency’s mission demands, stating that the new systems will enable scientists and engineers to reduce the time needed for discovery from months to minutes.
This collaboration supports the DOE’s Genesis Mission initiative, which seeks to integrate supercomputing, AI, and scientific innovation into a single discovery platform, furthering efforts to enhance American AI leadership as outlined in a presidential executive order.
Galen Shipman, chief architect of advanced technology systems at LANL, noted that the co-designed CPU technology addresses needs such as high-memory bandwidth and support for complex applications, boosting performance and efficiency for demanding workloads.
Full deployment of the Mission and Vision supercomputer systems is expected in 2027 and 2028.