Pentagon's most powerful supercomputer goes live at Navy base in Monterey

Published Jul 22, 11:05 PM UTC

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The U.S. military's most powerful supercomputer, a DGX GB300 system built by NVIDIA, has been installed at Naval Support Activity Monterey, California, home to the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The system, which combines 36 NVIDIA Grace CPUs with 72 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, was activated under a cooperative research and development agreement between NPS and NVIDIA that began in December 2024. A ribbon-cutting ceremony featured NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and U.S. Pacific Command commander Adm. Samuel Paparo. The supercomputer will support research in logistics, cybersecurity, and high-resolution weather and ocean modeling for military operations. It is also tied to NPS's new master's program in artificial intelligence, which launched with 11 students. Unlike the Defense Department's operational supercomputing center in Mississippi, this system is dedicated to research and innovation, aiming to make NPS a premier AI institution for defense.

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