Ted Hisokawa
Nov 18, 2025 03:16
NVIDIA announces over 80 new AI-powered scientific systems, enhancing global research capabilities with 4,500 exaflops of performance, as revealed at the SC25 conference in St. Louis.
At the SC25 conference in St. Louis, Missouri, NVIDIA unveiled over 80 new scientific systems, marking a significant leap in global AI capabilities. These systems collectively offer 4,500 exaflops of AI performance, enhancing research across diverse fields such as quantum physics, digital biology, and climate science, according to the NVIDIA blog.
Horizon: A New Frontier in Academic Supercomputing
Among the newly announced systems is Horizon, the largest academic supercomputer in the United States, located at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Scheduled to go online in 2026, Horizon will be powered by NVIDIA GB200 NVL4 and NVIDIA Vera CPU servers, interconnected with NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking. This 300-petaflop system is set to revolutionize scientific research and engineering by providing unprecedented computational capabilities.
Expanding AI Infrastructure at National Laboratories
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has partnered with NVIDIA to construct seven new AI supercomputers at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in Illinois and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico. These systems will leverage NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and advanced networking to enhance AI model development for science and energy applications. Notable among these is the Solstice system at ANL, which will feature 100,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, offering 1,000 exaflops of AI training compute.
European and Asian Expansion of AI Supercomputing
Across Europe, NVIDIA-accelerated supercomputers are advancing research in various scientific disciplines. Germany’s Jülich Supercomputing Centre’s JUPITER system has achieved exaflop performance on the HPL benchmark, marking a significant achievement in computational performance. Meanwhile, in Asia, countries like Japan and South Korea are integrating NVIDIA technologies to bolster their scientific research capacities.
Japan’s RIKEN institute is integrating NVIDIA systems for AI and quantum computing, while the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology has launched ABCI-Q, the world’s largest research supercomputer dedicated to quantum computing. In South Korea, the government plans to deploy over 50,000 NVIDIA GPUs to enhance AI infrastructure.
NVIDIA’s commitment to advancing scientific research through AI and supercomputing is evident in its global initiatives, providing researchers with the tools necessary to push the boundaries of discovery.
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