"AMD has sealed a $1 billion deal with the US Department of Energy to develop two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, in collaboration with Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Both supercomputers will live at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Lux is slated to come online fairly soon in early 2026, with Discovery following in 2029. Both build on the work that went into the Frontier supercomputer,"
"A press release announcing the partnership describes Lux as an AI Factory, stating: Lux at ORNL is the nation's first dedicated AI Factory for science, energy, and national securitypurpose-built to train, fine-tune, and deploy AI foundation models that will accelerate discovery and engineering innovation. Lux is designed to accelerate AI-driven science through its advanced architecture, optimized for data-intensive and model-centric workloads."
AMD secured a $1 billion contract with the US Department of Energy to build two supercomputers, Lux and Discovery, in partnership with Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), to be housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee. Lux will serve as a dedicated AI Factory to train, fine-tune, and deploy AI foundation models, targeted to come online in early 2026. Discovery will employ a Bandwidth Everywhere architecture to boost performance and energy efficiency relative to Frontier, scheduled for 2029. Both systems will support research in energy, biology, advanced materials, national security, and manufacturing, including next-generation reactors, batteries, catalysts, semiconductors, and critical materials.
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