Nvidia and partners to build seven AI supercomputers for the U.S. gov’t with over 100,000 Blackwell GPUs —combined performance of 2,200 ExaFLOPS of compute

Coming on the heels of the Vera Rubin-based supercomputers for Los Alamos National Laboratory, Nvidia announced on Tuesday that, together with partners, it would build seven ExaFLOPS-class AI supercomputers for Argonne National Laboratory. Two out of five systems will be built by Oracle and will use over 100,000 Blackwell GPUs, delivering a combined performance of up to 2,200 ExaFLOPS.

The first of five AI supercomputers for Argonne National Laboratory is Equinox, which will pack 10,000 Blackwell GPUs…