Key Takeaway
The new portfolio, designed for the AI era, aligns with the DOE’s mission to enhance U.S. leadership in AI and supercomputing for science, energy, and national security. It supports the U.S. AI Action Plan for secure national AI infrastructure. HPE’s President, Antonio Neri, emphasized the achievement of exascale computing with the Frontier supercomputer and the collaboration with the DOE, ORNL, and AMD to develop the Discovery and Lux systems. Discovery, utilizing the HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000 platform and next-gen AMD CPUs and GPUs, aims to boost research productivity tenfold, facilitating advancements in precision medicine, cancer research, nuclear energy, and aerospace.
This new portfolio is specifically designed for the AI era and is part of the DOE’s mission to enhance American leadership in AI and supercomputing across various fields, including science, energy, and national security.
The systems also align with the US AI Action Plan’s initiative for secure and sovereign national AI infrastructure.
“When we developed Frontier for Oak Ridge National Laboratory and introduced exascale computing, we reached a milestone in supercomputing history and a significant achievement for the US,” stated Antonio Neri, President and CEO of HPE.
“We are proud to continue that legacy of innovation and foster a strong public-private partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, ORNL, and AMD to create Discovery and Lux, propelling the next era of scientific discovery and AI innovation.”
Inside the Exascale Discovery
Discovery builds upon ORNL’s Frontier — the HPE-built machine that became the world’s first exascale supercomputer, capable of performing two quintillion calculations per second.
It will utilize the new HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000 platform, which incorporates a unified AI and High Performance Computing (HPC) architecture.
Discovery will also include HPE Cray Supercomputing Storage Systems K3000 and will be powered by next-generation AMD EPYC CPUs (“Venice”) and AMD Instinct™ MI430X GPUs.
Discovery is anticipated to boost research productivity tenfold, facilitating breakthroughs in precision medicine, cancer research, nuclear energy, and aerospace.
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