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Exclusive: #US Dept of #Energy forms $1B #supercomputer & #AI partnership with #AMD

The US has formed a $1 billion partnership with Advanced Micro Devices to construct 2 supercomputers that will tackle large scientific problems ranging from #NuclearPower to #cancer treatments to #NationalSecurity, Energy Secy Chris Wright & AMD CEO Lisa Su told Reuters.

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https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-department-energy-forms-1-billion-supercomputer-ai-partnership-with-amd-2025-10-27/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

The US is building the 2 machines to ensure the country has enough #supercomputers to run increasingly complex experiments that require harnessing enormous amounts of data-crunching capability. The machines can accelerate the process of making scientific discoveries in areas the US is focused on.

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#Energy Secy Wright said the systems would "supercharge" advances in #NuclearPower & #fusion energy, #technologies for #defense & #NationalSecurity, & the development of #drugs.

Scientists & companies are trying to replicate fusion, the reaction that fuels the sun, by jamming light atoms in a plasma gas under intense heat & pressure to release massive amounts of energy.

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…"We're going to get just massively faster progress using the computation from these #AI systems that I believe will have practical pathways to harness #fusion #energy in the next 2 or 3 years."

Wright said the #supercomputers would also help manage the US arsenal of #NuclearWeapons [Skynet anyone?] & accelerate #drug discovery by simulating ways to treat #cancer down to the
molecular level.

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"My hope is in the next 5 or 8 years, we will turn most cancers, many of which today are ultimate death sentences, into manageable conditions," Wright said.

[that sounds great, but #Trump has defunded #CleanEnergy, he actually wants to use #coal & other #FossilFuels which will increase #cancer rates!]

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The plans call for the first #supercomputer called #Lux to be constructed & come online within the next 6 months. It will be based around AMD's MI355X #ArtificialIntelligence chips, & the design will also include central processors & networking chips made by #AMD. The system is co-developed by AMD, #HewlettPackard Enterprise, #Oracle Cloud Infrastructure & Oak Ridge National Laboratory (#ORNL).

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#ORNL Director Stephen Streiffer said the #Lux #supercomputer will deliver about 3X the #AI capacity of current supercomputers.

The second, more advanced computer called #Discovery will be based around AMD's MI430 series of AI chips that are tuned for high-performance #computing. This system will be designed by ORNL, #HewlettPackard & #AMD. Discovery is expected to be delivered in 2028 & be ready for operations in 2029.

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The Department of #Energy will host the #computers, the companies will provide the machines & capital spending, & both sides will share the #computing power, a DOE official said.

The 2 #supercomputers based on #AMD chips are intended to be the first of many of these types of partnerships with private industry & #DOE labs across the country, the official said.

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Nick 'The Viking'Oct 27

I am broadly suspicious that these devices will ever yield anything positive.

@Nonilex So our autocrats are gutting science but a new supercomputer will make up for that!?

Peter Brown Oct 27

@Nonilex I am old enough to remember when Trump was chuntering on about clean air

@Nonilex I remember the NIH saying that the cure for cancer was in the data the6 had and would be found in ten years. That was 20 years ago. I’m not holding my breath on this one either.

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency Oct 27

@Nonilex Nope, none of that's going to happen - it's literally magic thinking. Or, more likely, deliberate lies.

Rob Williamson Oct 27

Supercomputers for simulating plasma physics or protein folding for fusion, cancer research, respectively, sure, that'll probably be useful.

"AI" supercomputers? Don't hold your breath.

@Nonilex science under fascism doesn't really go that well, though, does it.

FeralRobots Oct 27

@Nonilex Main problem with all of that is that it presumes a kind of ML that's largely unrelated to the flavors of "AI" that are getting funding & sucking up developer bandwidth at the moment.