Shares in semiconductor giant Nvidia (NVDA) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) rose today as they got together to build a new supercomputer.
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Roaring Louder
The two tech titans are teaming up with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Germany to create the Blue Lion supercomputer using Nvidia’s next-generation “Vera Rubin” chips.
Nvidia stock climbed 0.5% in pre-market trading with Hewlett Packard up 1.2%.
It’s being built for researchers working on climate, turbulence, physics and machine learning, and will be available in early 2027.
The announcement builds on earlier news that the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California, United States, is also planning to build a system using the same Nvidia chips next year. It is being built by Dell Technologies (DELL).
“AI is no longer an add-on. Simulation isn’t a silo. Data isn’t parked — it moves. Science is becoming a real-time discipline. The systems that power it need to keep up. Vera Rubin is built for that,” said Nvidia.
Separately, Nvidia also said that Jupiter, another supercomputer using its chips at German national research institute Forschungszentrum Julich, has officially become Europe’s fastest system.
Bottling Climate
The overall aim is to help European scientific institutions keep pace and stay competitive against the U.S.
Nvidia also today unveiled what it calls its “Climate in a Bottle” AI model. This generative AI model is part of the Earth-2 platform and simulates atmospheric conditions at a fine-grained 5km resolution. It can generate realistic atmospheric states conditioned on variables such as time of day, day of the year, and sea surface temperatures.
“Researchers will use a combined approach of classic physics and AI to resolve turbulent atmospheric flows,” said Dion Harris, head of data center product marketing at Nvidia. “This technique will allow them to analyze thousands and thousands more scenarios in greater detail than ever before.”
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