
US DOE identifies 16 sites on federal land for "rapid data center construction," including 1GW location
The sites have in-place energy infrastructure and fast-track permitting
The sites have in-place energy infrastructure and fast-track permitting
Hopes to fabricate chips able to operate in extreme environments
Will be housed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
The project plans to construct a 14 mile transmission line through the Caja del Rio area west of Santa Fe, New Mexico
First large-scale system with Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips deployed in the US
Deployment to support LANL's generative AI work
Oppenheimer's old laboratory replaces its Trinity cluster
NNSA looks to build the post-exascale supercomputers of tomorrow
Tycho features 2,600 nodes using Intel’s Sapphire Rapids processors
Capable of 10 exaflops of peak AI performance
And signs two huge supercomputing deals to go with it
Featuring upcoming Intel CPUs
Los Alamos is getting ready for when exascale becomes available
Researchers will have access to the largest commercially available quantum system
The exascale era is here
2,000 qubits for the National Nuclear Security Administration
The machine will be used to simulate nuclear weapons tests
Making NNSA workloads more efficient
Marvell's ThunderX2 gets to work
But the whole budget has to go through Congress, and will likely see a lot of changes
Board members include government, private military and video game industry executives