The High Performance Computing Operations Group of the High Performance Computing Division has the main responsibility of providing operational duties that span the HPC Division. There are several teams within the group that take responsibility for the broad range of HPC platforms for a large and diverse customer base: HPC Operations, HPC Vendor Liaison team, HPC Access Control Operations, and HPC logistics. We provide support and services to many production platforms at a world-class computing facility to ensure customers can accomplish their research and mission at extreme scale.
HPC Operations
Our Science/Capabilities
Hardware Support
- Equipment receiving and staging, data center room upkeep, and hardware installation and removal
Procurement
- Creating and modifying subcontracts, assisting with forecasting, work on site forms and other financial tracking
Real Time Monitoring
- Around the clock system and hardware monitoring and support, along with troubleshooting, diagnosis, and preventative maintenance tasks
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Quantum computers tackle a century‑old math puzzle
A Los Alamos scientist has shown that quantum algorithms can be used to factor group representations — a problem central to particle physics and many other fields — that was thought to be infeasible for computers at any practical scale

Los Alamos National Laboratory launches frontier AI models on the Venado supercomputer
The Venado supercomputer is now running the latest OpenAI reasoning models on its NVIDIA Grace Hopper GPUs to accelerate national security-related science

Los Alamos team finds a new path toward quantum machine learning
Gaussian had until now escaped use in the quantum computing realm