NVIDIA, Oracle team up to build US’ biggest AI supercomputer

NVIDIA and Oracle have partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to build the nation’s largest AI supercomputer, named Solstice, featuring 100,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. Alongside Solstice, a companion system called Equinox with 10,000 GPUs will also be deployed at Argonne National Laboratory. Together, these systems will deliver a combined 2,200 exaflops of AI performance, making them the most powerful AI infrastructure developed for the DOE. They aim to accelerate scientific research and innovation across diverse fields such as climate science, healthcare, materials science, and national security by enabling researchers to train advanced AI models using NVIDIA’s Megatron-Core library and TensorRT inference software. This initiative is part of the DOE’s public-private partnership model to reinforce U.S. technological leadership in AI and supercomputing. The collaboration is expected to enhance R&D productivity and foster breakthroughs by integrating these supercomputers with DOE experimental facilities like the Advanced Photon Source. Oracle