Norway's most powerful supercomputer will use waste heat to raise salmon

This week the Norwegian scientific community celebrated the completion of the Olivia supercomputer, which combines AMD CPUs with Nvidia Superchips to deliver a 16-fold boost to the nation's computing capacity – and eventually put fresh fish on the table.

Built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for Norway's national scientific computing division Sigma2, and located in an underground datacenter deep within the Lefdal Mines, Olivia combines 504 of AMD's latest Turin CPUs and 304 of Nvidia's Grace Hopper Superchips with 5.3 petabytes of HPE Lustre storage via HPE's 200 Gbps Slingshot 11 NICs

Nvidia's Grace Hopper may not be its latest accelerators, but they have proven to be among the most energy-efficient ever made. The parts combine Nvidia's 72-core Grace CPUs with a 144 GB H100 graphics accelerator. Each of these 1,000-watt chips is capable of delivering upwards of 67 teraFLOPS of FP64 ...