Los Alamos National Lab to Gain Next-Gen Supercomputing System in 2023

Los Alamos National Lab to Gain Next-Gen Supercomputing System in 2023

A cutting-edge, high performance supercomputer is set to be delivered to the Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in early 2023.


“With an innovative balance of memory bandwidth and capacity, this next-generation system will shape our institution’s computing strategy,” the lab’s Director Thom Mason said Monday.


Hewlett Packard Enterprise will provide the supercomputing architecture for the novel system, which will also feature Nvidia’s Arm-based Grace Central Processing Unit. Named for computer-programming pioneer Grace Hopper, the Grace CPU uses energy-efficient Arm cores and was explicitly designed for large-scale HPC and artificial intelligence applications. This new chip stems from designs of Arm Holdings, the British semiconductor-licensing giant Nvidia is moving to acquire. It was unveiled this week at Nvidia’s GTC conference, as the company’s first data center CPU.


Energy’s New Mexico-based lab will be the first U.S. customer to receive the advanced processor, and the Swiss Supercomputing Center will be the first to gain the product abroad. 


“LANL has been working towards a strategy for tailoring processors to improve performance and efficiency for its most demanding 3D, multi-physics, multi-link scale, and multi-resolutional problems to move time to solution from about 6 months to 6 days,” the lab’s HPC Division Leader Gary Grider told Nextgov Wednesday. “C ..

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