Nvidia Will Help Build 7 AI Supercomputers for DoE

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Nvidia will help build 7 AI supercomputers for DoE:

The US Department of Energy is partnering with Nvidia and Oracle to build seven new AI supercomputers to accelerate scientific research and develop agentic AI for discovery. Two of these systems, located at Argonne National Laboratory, will together form the DOE's largest AI supercomputing infrastructure.

Speaking at his company's annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a partnership with Oracle and Illinois-based Argonne to build the DoE's largest-ever AI supercomputer in the form of Solstice, a 100,000 Blackwell GPU system. When interconnected with another new system Nvidia and Oracle are building at Argonne, the 10,000 Blackwell GPU-strong Equinox, the interconnected supercomputers will have a combined 2,200 exaFLOPs of AI compute performance.

"Together with Oracle, we're building the Department of Energy's largest supercomputer that will serve as America's engine for discovery, giving researchers access to the most advanced AI infrastructure to drive progress across fields ranging from healthcare research to materials science," Huang said of the duo's plans at Argonne.

Solstice and Equinox won't just be serving up more compute power for scientific experiments at Argonne, though; they're also going to be part of the lab's drive "to develop agentic scientists," Nvidia noted. While not providing much in the way of details as to what that means for scientific research at the lab, Nvidia noted that the goal of introducing agentic AI to DoE scientific research was focused on "boosting R&D productivity and accelerating discovery enabled by public research dollars within a decade."

Equinox is expected to come online next year, but neither Nvidia nor the DoE gave a timeline for the giant Solstice system's arrival on the AI supercomputing scene.

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