Nvidia, HPE to make new supercomputer in Germany; Nvidia unveils AI model for climate

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) are partnering with Germany’s Leibniz Supercomputing Centre to build a new supercomputer.

Nvidia said the supercomputer called Blue Lion is being built by Hewlett Packard and will use next-generation HPE Cray technology and feature Nvidia graphics processing units, or GPUs.

The supercomputer will run on Nvidia Vera Rubin architecture. Vera Rubin is a superchip which combines Rubin GPU — the successor to NVIDIA Blackwell — and Vera CPU — Nvidia’s first custom CPU, built to work in lockstep with the GPU.

The supercomputer delivers roughly 30 times more computing power compared with SuperMUC-NG, the current LRZ high-performance computer.

Blue Lion will support collaborative research projects across Europe, according to the company.

Last month, the U.S. Department of Energy said that its new supercomputer Doudna will use technologies from Nvidia and Dell Technologies (DELL). Doudna will also run Vera Rubin.

The Blue Lion supercomputer will become available to scientists in early 2027, according to a report by Reuters.

Separately, Nvidia unveiled what it calls “Climate in a Bottle,” or cBottle, calling it the world’s first generative AI foundation model designed to simulate global climate at kilometer resolution.

Part of the Nvidia Earth-2 platform, the model can generate realistic atmospheric states that can be conditioned on inputs like the time of day, day of the year and sea surface temperatures. This offers a new way to understand and expect Earth’s most complex natural systems, according to the AI chip giant.

The Earth-2 platform features a software stack and tools that combine the power of AI, GPU acceleration, physical simulations and computer graphics. The company noted that with cBottle, these predictions can be made thousands of times faster and with more energy efficiency than traditional numerical models, without compromising accuracy.

Research institutions — including the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) and Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) — are exploring cBottle to compress, distill and turn Earth observation data and ultra-high-resolution climate simulations into a queryable and interactive generative AI system, Nvidia added.