Overview
- RIKEN announced two GB200 NVL4-based supercomputers totaling 2,140 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, with a 1,600‑GPU system for AI for science and a 540‑GPU system dedicated to quantum research, each linked by Quantum‑X800 InfiniBand.
- NVIDIA said over 80 new accelerated science systems were unveiled worldwide in the past year, contributing a combined 4,500 exaflops of AI compute.
- The Texas Advanced Computing Center’s Horizon will use 4,000 Blackwell GPUs and NVIDIA Vera CPUs to deliver 300 petaflops of FP64 performance and up to 80 exaflops of AI compute when it comes online in 2026.
- The U.S. Department of Energy’s program with NVIDIA spans seven systems at Argonne and Los Alamos, including Solstice with 100,000 Blackwell GPUs that NVIDIA says could reach about 1,000 exaflops of AI training compute, with some systems expected in 2027.
- Germany’s Jülich Supercomputing Centre reported its JUPITER system surpassed 1 exaflop on the HPL benchmark and is already running high‑resolution global climate simulations.