Overview
- Two AMD-powered systems named Lux and Discovery will be built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory under a $1 billion DOE partnership with industry.
- Lux is slated for early 2026 deployment as an AI Factory using AMD Instinct MI355X accelerators alongside AMD CPUs and networking, co-developed with HPE and Oracle.
- Oak Ridge’s director says Lux will deliver roughly triple the AI capacity of today’s leading supercomputers, marking the fastest deployment of this scale cited by AMD.
- Discovery is planned for delivery in 2028 and operations in 2029 using MI430‑series accelerators, with DOE materials indicating performance beyond the current Frontier system.
- DOE will host the machines while companies supply hardware and capital, with compute time shared, and officials say this is the first of more such partnerships across national labs.