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    "headline": "The Next Supercomputers Began With One Server",
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    "dek": "Los Alamos is testing the Vera CPU platform that will anchor Mission and Vision before the full systems arrive in 2027 and 2028.",
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    "body_text": "Los Alamos National Laboratory says its first Vera CPU server testbed will arrive this summer as part of the codesign work behind the Mission and Vision supercomputers. The lab reports more than three times the per-CPU performance of Crossroads and more memory per core, while Vision's Rubin GPUs are expected to accelerate AI workloads. Those figures are laboratory and vendor projections; the complete systems are not yet operational.",
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