""The two AI supercomputers, named Solstice and Equinox, will be created by Oracle and Nvidia and have been tipped as a future "powerhouse for scientific and technological innovation" by US secretary of energy Chris White. Solstice is the bigger of the supercomputers, with what Nvidia claims is a "record-breaking" 100,000 Blackwell GPUs. Equinox, meanwhile, will feature 10,000 Blackwell GPUs and will be the first to be completed, with an estimated delivery date of H1 2026.""
""The Equinox and Solstice systems are designed to accelerate a broad set of scientific AI workflows, and we are collaborating with Oracle and NVIDIA to prepare thousands of researchers to effectively leverage the systems' groundbreaking capabilities. "This system will seamlessly connect to forefront DoE experimental facilities such as our Advanced Photon Source, allowing scientists to address some of the nation's most pressing challenges through scientific discovery.""
The US Department of Energy has commissioned two AI supercomputers, Solstice and Equinox, for deployment at Argonne National Laboratory. Oracle and Nvidia will build the systems; Solstice will include a Nvidia-claimed 100,000 Blackwell GPUs and Equinox 10,000 Blackwell GPUs, with Equinox expected H1 2026. Once connected via Nvidia networking the pair are expected to deliver about 2,200 exaflops of combined AI performance, potentially exceeding Frontier or El Capitan in aggregate. It is unclear whether the performance figure refers to verified HPL Rmax or theoretical Rpeak. The systems will link to DoE experimental facilities, including the Advanced Photon Source.
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