# LANL Moves HPC Clusters to OpenCHAMI

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has moved seven production clusters, comprising more than 11,000 compute nodes, to the open-source OpenCHAMI management stack. LANL reports less downtime during system upgrades and support for mixed-vendor environments. The transition is not tied to an identified active solicitation or disclosed contract value, but it signals operational demand for contractors able to integrate, operate, and secure heterogeneous high-performance computing (HPC) environments. Related federal HPC programs include the Doudna system at NERSC, for which Dell was selected in May 2025, and LANL’s planned Mission and Vision supercomputers, with deployments expected in 2027 and 2028, respectively.

- Companies with HPC integration, operations, and security capabilities can assess how their offerings support open-source management stacks and mixed-vendor clusters; the signal does not identify a current LANL procurement.
- Dell’s Doudna build and the planned Mission and Vision systems indicate continuing federal investment in large-scale computing infrastructure. HPE and NVIDIA are identified in connection with the planned LANL systems.
- Contractors can use the reported operational benefits—reduced upgrade downtime and heterogeneous hardware support—to frame relevant capabilities for future federal HPC requirements.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Information Technology
**Topics:** Digital Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence
**Published:** November 13, 2026

### Government Entities
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE Office of Science)
- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

### Vendors
- Dell (Prime contractor for the Doudna supercomputer build)
- HPE (OpenCHAMI founding participant and planned builder of the Mission and Vision supercomputers)
- NVIDIA (Technology provider for the Doudna system and planned Mission and Vision supercomputers)

### Sources
- [LANL Transitions Most Production Computing to OpenCHAMI](https://www.executivegov.com/articles/lanl-moved-production-clusters-open-source-openchami) - ExecutiveGov