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Oak Ridge to host Luxe, an AI-focused supercomputer under DOE’s Genesis mission
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory will host Luxe, an AI-focused system built by HPE with AMD hardware, intended to accelerate scientific discovery under the Department of Energy's Genesis mission. Scott Ashley said Luxe will be smaller than Frontier but tuned for AI workloads and will be used by DOE scientists and industry partners.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory will install Luxe, a new AI-focused supercomputer built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) using AMD processors and accelerators, to support Department of Energy research under the Genesis mission, Scott Ashley said.
"Luxe is gonna be a new system for us. It is designed to support AI workloads," Scott Ashley, chief technology officer for the National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, said in an interview. The Reporter introducing the conversation noted Ashley also serves as lead architect on the Frontier system and on the upcoming Discovery system, expected in 2028.
The Genesis mission, Ashley said, aims to shorten the time from hypothesis to discovery. "The Genesis mission is DOE's mission to speed up the discovery... to shorten that by a factor of 2," he said, describing Luxe as a purpose-built platform that will support DOE scientists and the American Science Cloud modeling consortium in developing AI-driven workflows across scientific domains.
Ashley described Luxe as a public–private partnership with AMD supplying CPUs and GPUs and also participating as an active user. "It's a very tight partnership between AMD and Oak Ridge," he said, and added that Luxe will be specifically optimized for AI performance. "Even though it's a much smaller system, we'll have more AI performance than Frontier," he said, distinguishing Luxe's AI focus from Frontier's more general-purpose capabilities.
By contrast, Ashley said, the Discovery system will be a broader leadership-class machine that provides a full range of performance for modeling, simulation and AI and that will serve a wider user community than Luxe can.
No formal timetable for Luxe's arrival or detailed capacity figures were provided in the interview. The Reporter noted Discovery is expected in 2028. Oak Ridge and its partners said Luxe will be used by DOE scientists and by private-sector collaborators as part of the Genesis mission's effort to accelerate scientific discovery.
The interview focused on the architecture and partnership model for Luxe; there were no motions or formal decisions recorded during the conversation.
