Lux and Discovery Could Turn Oak Ridge Into a Powerful AI Playground

Lux and Discovery could turn Oak Ridge into a powerful AI playground

The US and AMD are investing $1 billion in two supercomputers to advance AI and scientific computing.

AMD to build two more supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Labs

The collaboration between AMD and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) continues, with two more supercomputers planned to join the two that already are deployed. The two existing systems at ORNL are Frontier, an all-AMD design, and Summit, an IBM/NVIDIA design. They will be joined in the next few years by Lux AI and Discovery. Discovery and Lux will be DOE flagship supercomputers designed to dr…