NNSA, LANL Codesign Next-Gen Supercomputers with Tech Partners

Partnership with HPE and NVIDIA brings processor technology that can reduce discovery time from months to minutes

WASHINGTON - The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has unveiled plans for 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.

The first Vera Rubin central processing unit (CPU) server will arrive at Los Alamos this summer for testing as the result of an ongoing collaboration between Los Alamos, NVIDIA, and their partners. Vera Rubin, powered by NVIDIA's Olympus core, will support both high-performance computing (HPC) and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, which will accelerate the lab's scientific and engineering efforts.

"The Genesis Mission calls for exactly these kinds of partnerships to meet the urgency our mission demands," said NNSA Administrator Brandon Williams. "By codesigning these systems alongside HPE and NVIDIA from the ground up, we're building the tools that will allow our scientists and engineers to reduce the time needed for discovery from months to minutes. This is how we accelerate production and deliver for the American people."

The Trump Administration's Genesis Mission initiative aims to fuse National Lab supercomputing, AI, and scientific innovations into a unified discovery platform. This collaboration also builds on President Trump's executive order to remove barriers to American AI leadership.

Los Alamos has a longstanding collaboration with NVIDIA and its partners on CPU technology, which combines high performance and memory bandwidth with low-latency processing and lower energy use.

"By focusing on unmet needs - like high-memory bandwidth and support for complex applications - we have significantly improved performance and efficiency for our most challenging workloads," said Galen Shipman, chief architect of advanced technology systems at LANL.

Full deployment of the Mission and Vision systems is expected in 2027 and 2028.