Los Alamos unveils new supercomputer

Los Alamos National Laboratory cut the ribbon Monday on Venado, its new supercomputer.

The new HPE Cray EX supercomputer was unveiled to representatives of the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, co-designers Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nvidia, the maker of its GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips . Those superchips promise to outperform past chip technology by executing millions more instructions per second with lower power consumption.