HPE to build next-generation exascale and AI systems for Oak Ridge National Laboratory

HPE has announced that it has been selected to build two systems for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), reinforcing DOE’s mission to advance American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing for science, energy, and national security.

The new systems include Discovery, a second-generation exascale supercomputer that succeeds the one built by ORNL’s HPE. Borderand luxa new AI cluster designed to accelerate innovation in AI and machine learning on a cloud-like multi-tenant platform.

Discovery: Advancing the convergent era of AI and HPC

Discovery will be based on the new HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000, HPE’s next-generation supercomputing platform built for leading-class systems that unify AI and High Performance Computing (HPC) architectures. The platform enables optimized operations on distributed clusters and will be combined with HPE Cray Supercomputing K3000 DAOS-based storage systems.

Discovery will offer new…