EuroHPC JU signs contract for AI supercomputer HammerHAI

EuroHPC JU has signed a contract with HPE to deploy HammerHAI, the first new, standalone supercomputer under its Artificial Intelligence Factories initiative. Once installed at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) in Germany, the Artificial Intelligence-optimized system will provide new capabilities for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science, with a focus on supporting European science, industry, small and medium-sized enterprises, and startups.

HammerHAI will be manufactured and installed by HPE and will be based on the liquid-cooled NVIDIA GB200 NVL4 architecture. Combining NVIDIA Grace CPUs with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and scaled with NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking, the NVIDIA GB200 NVL4 by HPE will offer more than 15 Exaflops of peak AI inference performance. The system is positioned as a dedicated platform for high-performance computing and Artificial Intelligence workloads.

The deployment will integrate the VAST Data DASE storage architecture, which provides a unified data platform for Artificial Intelligence and HPC workloads. It will also include a partition based on Artificial Intelligence-optimized inference engines and hardware accelerators from Netherlands-based Axelera Artificial Intelligence. HPE Morpheus Enterprise software will serve as a unified Artificial Intelligence control plane, supporting automated provisioning, governance, and workload lifecycle management.