Nvidia (NVDA, Financial) is building a new supercomputer in Germany with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE, Financial) and the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre. The system, called Blue Lion, will be built using HPE's next-generation Cray technology and Nvidia's powerful GPUs.
What's under the hood? Blue Lion will run on Nvidia's Vera Rubin architecture — a combo of its new Rubin GPU and its first-ever custom CPU, called Vera. According to Nvidia, the system will be roughly 30 times more powerful than Germany's current flagship machine, SuperMUC-NG. The supercomputer is set to go live for researchers across Europe in early 2027, as first reported by Reuters.
Meanwhile, Nvidia has also rolled out an AI foundation model built to simulate Earth's climate at kilometer-level precision. Named “Climate in a Bottle” or cBottle, the tool is part of Nvidia's Earth-2 platform, which blends AI, GPU acceleration, and physics-based modeling.
The idea is to generate highly detailed atmospheric data faster and more energy-efficiently than traditional simulation methods — and without giving up on accuracy. cBottle can take into account time of day, season, and sea surface temperatures to create realistic atmospheric models.
Institutions like the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the Allen Institute for AI are already testing how cBottle can help compress climate data and make Earth's complex systems easier to explore.
The launch reflects Nvidia's broader push into science-focused applications for AI and high-performance computing, beyond the data center and enterprise cloud.
