NVIDIA plans 35 AI supercomputers across Europe

NVIDIA announced a record 35 AI HPC supercomputers in development across Europe, describing it as the continent’s largest one-year expansion of supercomputing capacity. The systems span 23 countries and are aimed at giving more than 3 million researchers access to infrastructure for AI, accelerated science and industrial innovation.

The buildout includes Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s EuroHPC MareNostrum5 AI upgrade, BavariaAI’s Blue Swan, IT4LIA, HLRS’s HammerHAI and NAISS’s Mimer EuroHPC AI Factory. NVIDIA said its Blackwell and Hopper platforms power the majority of Europe’s AI factory expansion, with 800 AI exaflops deployed or announced since last year, supported by Quantum InfiniBand networking, CUDA-X libraries, NIM microservices and AI Enterprise software.

The systems are positioned to support climate science, biomedical research, clean-energy decarbonization, engineering simulation and quantum computing. Siemens Energy is using NVIDIA technologies with the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to develop gas turbines designed to run on up to 100% hydrogen, cutting simulation times by up to 77%. NVIDIA also cited CUDA-Q integrations at CINECA, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Jülich Supercomputing Centre, where researchers fully simulated a universal 50-qubit quantum computer on JUPITER.