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 …

[brainwrong]

2.2 sillyFLOPS

I'm glad it's not just me who can't remember which bigness prefix comes next.

"combined 2,200 exaFLOPs of AI compute performance"

Does it have any REAL compute performance?

[DS999]

Re: 2.2 sillyFLOPS

Of course zetta comes after exa, then yotta. It is easy to remember, like the last three letters of the alphabet: x, z, y!

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: 2.2 sillyFLOPS

Shirley that’s e, z and y ?

[Old Man Ted]

Department of energy is this the department which oversee the amount of energy they can use?

[Jimjam3]

IKR? Seems the Department of Energy wants to waste as much Energy as possible, :(

[Hurn]

CPUs anyone?

Closest mention of CPU was "Cray Supercomputing GX5000", which, apparently, can include both AMD (and?/)or NVidia GPUs, with Intel (and?/)or AMD CPUs.

Yeah, I know the GPUs do the "heavy lifting" these days, but compute is needed as well.

Whose stock can expect a boost?

Inquiring minds wanna know.

Guess maybe it's time do a search and see who, besides NVidia (and HPE), is crowing about this deal.

C'mon, The Reg, you know (at least some, maybe the majority) your readers are lazy. Don't make us do all the work.

We come here, so we don't have to go searching. Usually.

[luis river]

REMARK

well, trade Mark CRAY its the **genuinus** construction Supercomputer technology CO. All other there are merely imitation companies...

[Dr Watson]

It's big but ...

Can it run Doom?

[Rivalroger]

Oracle? Wot no SPARC?

I should have thought that they could have taken Sun's R&D to develop some super efficient chipset but then that wouldn't be Larry's way.