• Blue Lion supercomputer, powered by Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips, launches in 2027.
• Nvidia’s AI model forecasts the weather decades using minimal initial data inputs.
• Europe’s Jupiter supercomputer, using Nvidia chips, is now the continent’s fastest system.

Nvidia and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a significant collaboration with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Germany on Tuesday to construct a cutting-edge supercomputer named Blue Lion. Scheduled to be operational for researchers by early 2027, Blue Lion will harness Nvidia’s next-generation "Vera Rubin" chips, designed to push the boundaries of computational power.

The announcement, made at a supercomputing conference in Hamburg, Germany, comes alongside Nvidia’s revelation that the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in the United States willalso deploy a system using these advanced chips in 2026. On a different note, Nvidia confirmed that Jupiter, a supercomputer at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, powered by Nvidia chips, is now officially Europe's fastest system, hence marking the increase in power for supercomputing in Europe.

Such projects show that European institutions want to match the United States in supercomputing, which supports new developments in science fields like biotechnology, climate studies, and the science of materials. At first, Nvidia was dedicated to boosting scientific research such as climate modeling that needed a lot of time-consuming perfect calculations. Now, the company leads the movement to incorporate artificial intelligence.

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Its newly unveiled "Climate in a Bottle" AI model enables scientists to input minimal initial conditions, such as sea surface temperatures, to generate detailed weather forecasts spanning 10 to 30 years with kilometer-scale resolution. “Researchers will use combined approach of classic physics and AI to resolve turbulent atmospheric flows,” said Dion Harris, Head of Data Center product marketing at Nvidia.

This technique will enable them to examine a huge number of scenarios more thoroughly than in the past. When physics and AI are put together by Nvidia, the result is faster albeit less accurate predictions that greatly help efficiency in research. Such steps bring a new age of change to scientific computing, with Europe at the top thanks to its smart partnerships and advanced technology