Nvidia (NVDA, Financial) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a collaboration with Germany's Leibniz Supercomputing Centre to develop a next-generation supercomputer named "Blue Lion." The system, utilizing Nvidia's latest "Vera Rubin" chips, is planned to be operational for scientists by early 2027. This announcement was made at the ISC High Performance 2025 conference in Hamburg, Germany.
The initiative underscores Nvidia's ongoing expansion in the high-performance computing market globally. In addition, Germany's Forschungszentrum Jülich's supercomputer "Jupiter," equipped with Nvidia chips, has become the fastest in Europe, highlighting European institutions' eagerness in supercomputing to maintain competitiveness with the U.S. in fields like biotechnology and climate research.
Previously, Nvidia has been promoting its chips for complex computational problems, such as climate change simulations that often take months. Now, Nvidia is integrating AI to expedite these calculations. For instance, its new AI model, "Climate in a Bottle," allows researchers to input initial conditions like sea surface temperature to predict climate scenarios over the next 10 to 30 years, significantly reducing computation time.
