New Supercomputers to Boost Nuclear Security, AI, and Science at Los Alamos

Los Alamos National Laboratory has chosen HPE and NVIDIA to build two new supercomputers, Mission and Vision, designed specifically for the AI era. HPE will serve as the main contractor, and both systems will combine traditional high-performance computing with powerful new AI capabilities. Together, they will support national security work, major scientific modeling, and advanced AI research across the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) complex, depending on future funding approvals.

Both supercomputers will be built on HPE’s Cray GX5000 architecture and powered by NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin platform, which is optimized for large-scale AI and simulation. The key goal is not just faster computing, but smarter computing — systems that can run complex simulations while also using AI to improve prediction, speed up analysis, and enable new types of scientific discovery.

Mission will operate in classified space and focus on national security science, using AI alongside simulation to handle large, high-stakes problems more quickly and in parallel. Scheduled to come online in 2027, it will replace the Crossroads system and represents NNSA’s first major “post-exascale” platform built for integrated AI-driven modeling.

Vision, also expected in 2027, will support unclassified research and bring similar AI power to open science work at Los Alamos — including materials, nuclear science, energy modeling, and biomedical research. Both systems will allow many users and workloads to run at the same time, helping researchers apply AI and simulation together across a wider range of projects, faster than before.

To read more see the entire LANL article at: Los Alamos National Laboratory announces 2 new supercomputers and the DOE Genesisi Misison news release at:  Energy Department Launches ‘Genesis Mission’ to Transform American Science and Innovation Through the AI Computing Revolution.

Top image: Operational in 2027, Mission will allow AI capabilities with a focus on national security science.