A press release<\/a> announcing the partnership describes Lux as an \u201cAI Factory,\u201d stating:<\/p>\n Lux at ORNL is the nation\u2019s first dedicated AI Factory for science, energy, and national security\u2014purpose-built to train, fine-tune, and deploy AI foundation models that will accelerate discovery and engineering innovation. Lux is designed to accelerate AI-driven science through its advanced architecture, optimized for data-intensive and model-centric workloads.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Discovery is described as having a \u201cBandwidth Everywhere\u201d design that improves on the performance and energy efficiency the Frontier supercomputer offers, delivering more computing output at a similar cost. That processing power will support scientific research in a variety of areas, as the press release explains:<\/p>\n Discovery will drive breakthroughs in energy, biology, advanced materials, national security, and manufacturing innovation. It will help design next-generation reactors, batteries, catalysts, semiconductors, and critical materials.<\/p>\n Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Stevie BonifieldClose Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n FollowFollow<\/p>\n See All by Stevie Bonifield<\/a><\/p>\n AICloseAI<\/p>\n Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n FollowFollow<\/p>\n See All AI<\/a><\/p>\n AMDCloseAMD<\/p>\n Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n FollowFollow<\/p>\n See All AMD<\/a><\/p>\n NewsCloseNews<\/p>\n Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n FollowFollow<\/p>\n![\"Stevie](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bonifield_Stevie_197-33486-cr-Retouched.jpg\"\/)
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