Nvidia donates a DGX GB300 to the US military’s top science school
Jensen Huang travelled to Monterey this week to give the US Navy a machine that most defence contractors would have had to sell it.
Nvidia’s founder helped commission a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer at the Naval Postgraduate School, the first system of its kind installed anywhere in the American military, and the company donated it rather than route it through a procurement contract.
The hardware is a single liquid-cooled rack that packs 72 Blackwell Ultra GPUs alongside 36 Grace CPUs, wired together as one memory domain and running Nvidia’s Mission Control orchestration software.
It is the rack-scale configuration Nvidia sells for inference and reasoning workloads, and by the standards of the DGX line it is the top of the range. NPS now runs what is, for the moment, the most powerful supercomputer the Pentagon has.
One estimate put the value of the system at roughly $15m, though neither Nvidia nor...
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