Supercomputers/Systems/Vision (LANL)
USA · planned · mixed
Vision (LANL)
Also known as Vision
Operated by Los Alamos National Laboratory at Los Alamos Strategic Computing Complex .
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Measured performance
- Rmax
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- Rpeak
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- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
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- Cores
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- Power
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- Per watt
- - GF/W
Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.
| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrator | - HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000 built by HPE | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | - | Reported | lanl.govenergy.gov |
| Accelerator | NVIDIA Vera Rubin Accelerators NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform (Vera CPUs with Rubin GPUs) | NVIDIA | - | Reported | lanl.govnewswise.com |
| Interconnect | NVIDIA InfiniBand XDR (Quantum-X800) Interconnect Fat tree or dragonfly+ · 800 Gb/s per port NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand | NVIDIA | - | Reported | lanl.gov |
The read
Unclassified companion to `lanl-mission` at Los Alamos, built by HPE on the same HPE Cray GX5000 and NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform and aimed at open work such as LDRD projects in national security, materials, nuclear science, energy modelling and biomedical research; LANL says it builds on `venado`. Operation is expected in 2027 and full deployment in 2027 and 2028. A 30 September 2026 LANL release names a Vision-Transformer partition that may arrive as early as late 2026. The same release states that all three LANL systems will use Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs. The lab quotes design goals of more than 12x the AI performance of Venado's Hopper GPUs per GPU. No node counts, FLOPS or power are published and funding is contingent on appropriations.
Timeline
- 2025-10 Announced source
Site & facility
Los Alamos Strategic Computing Complex
- Location
- Los Alamos, NM, USA
- Cooling
- Chilled water
- Commissioned
- 1993
Change history
- 2026-10-18 Added Vision (LANL) (LANL)
Further reading
Operating a supercomputer
Acceptance testing, why "installed" and "in production" are six months apart, and the machine lifecycle.
Inside a node
Why accelerators exist, what the memory hierarchy costs, and how the CPU and accelerator merged onto one package.
The interconnect
Topologies, why latency and tail behaviour matter more than bandwidth, and how the fabric market consolidated.