Los Alamos, NM, Aug. 28, 2025—After moving to a classified network earlier this year, the Venado supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory is now running OpenAI’s latest o-series reasoning models to accelerate national security research. Venado, which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, is the 19th-fastest supercomputer in the world and serves as a shared resource for researchers […]
With Hammerspace and LANL’s Gary Grider at ISC 2025: Parallel Data Storage for Advanced Simulations
August 19, 2025 by
Parallel file system legend Gary Gride of Los Alamos National Lab, and Molly Presley, a well-known executive in the high performance storage sector and SVP at Hammerspace, joined us at the ISC 2025 conference in Hamburg.
Open Flash Platform Storage Initiative Aims to Cut AI Infrastructure Costs by 50%
July 15, 2025 by
Today, the Open Flash Platform initiative was launched with inaugural members Hammerspace, the Linux community, Los Alamos National Laboratory, ScaleFlux, SK Hynix, and Xsight Systems.
Univ. of Michigan, Los Alamos to Develop HPC and AI Research Facility
December 12, 2024 by
The University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory plan to develop a facility for high-performance computing and AI research designed to enhance the university’s research capabilities in science, energy and national security and create new jobs in southeast Michigan. The effort, part of a new partnership agreement, builds on a recently established research collaboration […]
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240826: Hot Chips, NM Senate Race and LANL, Underground Nuclear Power for AI, AMD Buys ZT Systems
August 26, 2024 by
Good August morning to you! We offer a quick (5:32) round-up of HPC-AI news: Hot Chips 2024, LANL exascale power needs enters NM politics, underground nuclear power for AI, AMD-ZT Systems deal
Cerebras: Wafer Scale Engine Outperforms Frontier Supercomputer on Molecular Dynamics Simulations
May 16, 2024 by
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – May 15, 2024 – Accelerated generative AI chip company Cerebras Systems, in collaboration with researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, said it has acheved a breakthrough in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using the second generation Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE-2). Researchers performed atomic scale simulations at the millisecond […]
Announcing insideHPC’s New National Lab News Portal
October 17, 2023 by
Today marks the launch of insideHPC’s new National Lab News portal, a service for the HPC community that highlights and aggregates the use of HPC technologies at supercomputing centers in the United States and around the world. You can access the portal by clicking on the header in the insideHPC navigation bar, (“National Lab News”), articles will be listed….
Los Alamos Reports Hardware Approach Offers New Quantum Computing Paradigm
August 15, 2023 by
Los Alamost National Laboratory reported today that a potentially game-changing theoretical approach to quantum computing hardware avoids some of the complexity in quantum….
Cori Supercomputer Bids NERSC and HPC Community Adieu
May 17, 2023 by
After nearly seven years of service, thousands of user projects, and tens of billions of compute hours, the Cori supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) will be retired at the end of May. With its first cabinets installed in 2015 and the system fully deployed by 2016, Cori has been in […]
Sandia, Los Alamos, Livermore, NNSA and AMD Collaborate on Stockpile Mission
January 31, 2023 by
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories, in partnership with Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national labs, has awarded a contract to AMD that funds research and development of advanced memory technologies expected to accelerate high-performance simulation and computing applications in support of the nation’s stockpile stewardship mission. The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Advanced Simulation and Computing […]
