Venado
Los Alamos uses Venado for national-security science, including AI reasoning models on a classified network.
Venado is an operational GPU cluster run by Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States. It has 2,560 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper GPUs installed.
Facts
Source per value- Owner / operator Organization that owns or operates the GPUs. Hosting and facility roles are listed under Partners.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory 1
- GPU maker NVIDIA, AMD or Intel, taken from the GPU model.
- NVIDIA 1
- GPU model Accelerator model or family as disclosed. A GH200 is one GPU on a superchip; an MI300A is an APU that contains a GPU.
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper 1
- GPUs installed Physical GPUs in the cluster, from the operator or a deterministic sum of disclosed quantities (nodes × GPUs per node). Planned counts, H100-equivalents and unaudited press totals are never counted here.
- 2,560 1
- Location City, region and country where the cluster sits. Empty when the operator does not name the site.
- Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States 1
- Country Country of the cluster, taken from the location.
- United States 1
- Live power MW Power in service, in megawatts of IT load where the source says so. Company figures are marked in the notes; Epoch AI satellite estimates are labelled as estimates.
- Not published
- Status operational = running and named as such by the operator or a primary source; partly operational = a phase is live and more is coming; under construction = building underway; announced = disclosed or contracted with no confirmed go-live.
- operational 1
- Status notes The source’s wording on status, with the date.
- Operating on a classified network in August 2025. 1
- Figures as of Date of the source disclosure behind the figures, where the source dates it.
- 2025-08-28 1
- Cooling Cooling method where published.
- Direct liquid cooling 1
Sources
- energy.gov accessed 2026-11-11
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