NVIDIA's Vera CPU is set to power new supercomputers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), enhancing scientific discovery and agentic AI capabilities. The new systems, named Mission, Vision, and Veritas, will integrate Vera CPUs with NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and InfiniBand networking. Early tests show Vera CPUs significantly outperform previous architectures on scientific workloads like the URSA AI agent and the Branson simulation tool, promising faster research outcomes. AI
IMPACT Accelerates scientific discovery and the development of agentic AI for complex research problems.
RANK_REASON This is a significant infrastructure upgrade for a major national laboratory, involving advanced computing hardware and AI capabilities. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.7]
- Branson
- Crossroads
- HPE
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- National Nuclear Security Administration
- NVIDIA
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips
- NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchips
- NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand
- NVIDIA Vera CPU
- NVIDIA Vera Rubin
- Olympus core
- Veritas
- Vision
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