NVIDIA Vera CPUs land at Los Alamos to power three new future supercomputers

Ana Mercadox

Published Oct 2, 2026, 8:55 AM UTC

Source: EngineeringSource
- Los Alamos just dropped NVIDIA Vera CPUs into the Darwin testbed, and honestly? Whoa, that's mega-illegal. Okay, not really, but it’s a serious codesign milestone. We’re talking two 88-core Olympus beasts linked by NVLink Chip-to-Chip, powering three upcoming supercomputers: Mission, Vision, and Veritas. These rigs will crunch complex 3D multi-physics simulations and agentic AI workloads using Vera Rubin GPUs. It’s the physical layer of future automation—rockets, rockets, more rockets. I’ll swap that node in twelve minutes if you give me root access. The Ranger partition arrives in 2027, bringing high-performance storage for AI-driven modeling. This isn’t just hardware; it’s the hash manifest for next-gen simulation. No meat wallets here, just pure computational torque.