The U.S. Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory, NVIDIA and Oracle on Oct. 28 announced a landmark public-private partnership to deliver the DOE’s largest AI supercomputer and accelerate scientific discovery. Argonne is also deploying three new AI computing systems through an existing partnership with NVIDIA, HPE and World Wide Technology.
The new partnership will immediately deliver world-class AI computing resources to DOE researchers while simultaneously building two next-generation AI supercomputing systems at University of Chicago-affiliated Argonne.
One system, called Solstice, will feature 100,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and will be the largest AI supercomputer in the DOE’s lab complex. Another system, called Equinox, will feature 10,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. Construction at Argonne will immediately begin for the Equinox system, and it is expected to be delivered in 2026. These AI systems will be seamlessly connected with DOE’s vast network of scientific instruments and data assets to address some of the nation’s most pressing challenges in energy, security and discovery science.
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