Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever

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 ...