India, Nov. 7 -- HPE has announced that it has been selected to build two systems for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), reinforcing the DOE's mission to advance American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing for science, energy, and national security.

The new systems include Discovery, a second-generation exascale supercomputer succeeding ORNL's HPE-built Frontier, and Lux, a new AI cluster designed to accelerate AI and machine learning innovation on a multi-tenant, cloud-like platform.

Discovery will be based on the new HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000, HPE's next-generation supercomputing platform built for leadership-class systems that unify AI and High-Performance Compu...