Italy’s iGenius unveils Nvidia DGX AI supercomputer with Grace Blackwell chips

On Thursday, Italian AI startup iGenius unveiled Colosseum — one of the world’s largest Nvidia DGX SuperPOD AI supercomputers with Nvidia Grace Blackwell Superchips.

“IGenius will use Colosseum to build advanced AI applications for customers worldwide to support highly regulated industry use cases in financial services, healthcare and public sector,” said an Nvidia spokesperson in an email to Seeking Alpha.

The supercomputer features Nvidia DGX GB200 systems containing thousands of NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Superchips designed for real-time trillion-parameter inference and training, iGenius said in a press release on Thursday.

Colosseum will also be used to build advanced AI applications, including training open-source generative AI and trillion-plus-parameter large language models, or LLMs, according to iGenius.

Colosseum will be located in Europe and features state-of-the-art liquid cooling. The supercomputer is expected to deliver 115 exaflops of computational performance, all powered by renewable energy from Italy, iGenius added.

“We designed this supercomputer for unicorn use cases that can deliver $1B+ in value,” said iGenius CEO Uljan Sharka.

Built with the Nvidia’s AI Enterprise software platform, Nemotron models and the NeMo framework, the iGenius AI models will be offered as Nvidia NIM microservices.

IGenius said it plans to offer customers the option to deploy the models and microservices as fully managed applications, which can include cloud-based or on-premises Nvidia accelerated computing to meet industry and government regulations for AI.