AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) and the United States Department of Energy have announced a public and private partnership worth more than one billion dollars. The plan is to build two new artificial intelligence supercomputers called Lux and Discovery for Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The goal is to support faster progress in fields such as energy, national security and medicine.
Lux is promoted as the first artificial intelligence factory for science in the United States. It is being developed by Oak Ridge, AMD, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Discovery is planned to be the next leading system at Oak Ridge. The laboratory said it will help continue its strong position in high performance computing and artificial intelligence.
Lux is expected to be installed in early 2026. It will use AMD Instinct MI355X accelerators along with AMD Epyc central processing units and Pensando networking technology. Discovery is expected to arrive in 2028 and begin user operations in 2029. It will be built on the new Hewlett Packard Enterprise Cray Supercomputing GX5000 platform. It will use next generation AMD Epyc Venice central processing units and Instinct MI430X graphics processing units.
The partnership follows a new model where the Department of Energy will host the systems. Industry partners will provide the machines and the capital spending. Compute resources will be shared between the government and private partners.
Leaders at Oak Ridge said Lux will offer around three times more artificial intelligence capacity than current supercomputers. It will help work on data heavy research including fusion energy, nuclear science, materials discovery and cancer studies. Discovery is designed to increase performance even further. It features a bandwidth everywhere system to support artificial intelligence for scientific work at large scale.
This initiative continues the involvement of AMD in United States scientific computing. The company already supports Frontier, which is the exascale system at Oak Ridge, and the system known as El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore. Lux and Discovery strengthen its presence in the national technology infrastructure and in major artificial intelligence systems.
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