WAYNE, PA — Cornelis has deployed its CN5000 high-performance networking technology in a new 952-node supercomputing cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, expanding computing capacity for the U.S. government’s nuclear security modeling and simulation programs.
The “Lynx” system has entered production as part of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Commodity Technology Systems program and will support the agency’s Advanced Simulation and Computing initiative, which provides computational tools used to assess the nation’s nuclear stockpile and broader national security missions.
The deployment represents a significant validation of Cornelis’ latest networking platform in a production environment where performance, reliability and scalability are critical.
Lynx is built with Dell PowerEdge servers, Intel Xeon processors and Cornelis’ CN5000 Omni-Path networking fabric, which provides 400-gigabit-per-second connectivity between computing nodes.
The system is being integrated into Lawrence Livermore’s high-performance computing environment and will support large-scale modeling, simulation and analytical workloads.
Matt Leininger, senior principal HPC strategist at Lawrence Livermore, characterized the project as the result of years of collaboration between the laboratory and industry partners focused on advancing computing infrastructure for national security applications.
“Lynx reflects the results of that public-private R&D investment and will support the modeling, simulation and analysis capabilities that underpin the modern NNSA complex,” Leininger stated.
The deployment also advances the NNSA’s broader effort to evaluate next-generation computing technologies for future mission requirements.
Stephen Rinehart, assistant deputy administrator for the NNSA’s Office of Advanced Simulation and Computing, described the system as an important step in strengthening the computing infrastructure supporting future workloads.
“The system builds on NNSA’s Next-Generation High Performance Computing Network effort and strengthens the computing ecosystem supporting future ASC workloads,” Rinehart stated.
For Cornelis, the installation provides a high-profile production deployment as demand for high-performance computing infrastructure increases across government, research and artificial intelligence applications.
Brad Haczynski, the company’s chief commercial officer, described the Lawrence Livermore deployment as a demonstration that the CN5000 platform is ready for broader adoption across commercial, academic and government computing environments.
The Lynx cluster is now operational at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and supporting production workloads for the NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing program.
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