The Los Alamos National Laboratory’s new high-performance computing system, called Venado, assembled by Hewlett Packard and to be delivered in 2023, will be the first in the U.S. powered by the Grace central processing unit designed by Nvidia, the lab said.
The lab announced the impending delivery of its next high-performance computer system at this month’s 2022 International Supercomputing Conference and in a press release this week.
Los Alamos in New Mexico and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California use high-performance computers in tandem with experiments at high-energy density physics facilities and subcritical, explosive plutonium experiments at the Nevada National Security Site to assess the destructive potential of aging U.S. nuclear weapons.
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) funds its enterprise-wide high-performance computing programs from the Advanced Simulation and Computing account within the Stockpile Research, Technology and Engineering portfolio of the Weapons Activities budget.
For fiscal year 2023, the NNSA requested about $747 million for the Advanced Simulation and Computing account, up by $15 million, or 2%, compared with the $732 million Congress appropriated for fiscal year 2022, which runs through Sept. 30.
