Eindhoven University of Technology (TU Eindhoven) is expected to be one of the first European customers to receive Nvidia DGX B200 systems.
Set to be deployed in an environmentally sustainable data center in Finland, the four Nvidia DGX B200 systems will be used to power the university’s new AI supercomputer – dubbed SPIKE-1 – which is slated to go live in the first half of 2025.
The supercomputer will primarily be used by researchers from the university’s Eindhoven AI Systems Institute (EAISI) and its mathematics and computer science department. Under the terms of TU Eindhoven’s deal with Nvidia, the chip giant will provide a two-year technical refresh option to renew the infrastructure and software of the supercomputer.
Nvidia will also support researchers with any AI development project or research issues that arise.
“We are proud of this new facility, which will greatly enhance the possibilities for our researchers and students to do AI-based research, like cutting-edge cancer research,” said Patrick Groothuis, vice president of TU Eindhoven. “This also shows our dedication to being a frontrunner in AI science, which will help attract talent and resources and boost cooperation.”
Announced in March 2024, the Nvidia DGX B200 system is the sixth generation of the company’s air-cooled, traditional rack-mounted DGX design. Comprising eight Nvidia B200 Tensor Core GPUs and two 5th Gen Intel Xeon CPUs, Nvidia claims that the DGX is capable of up to 144 petaflops of AI performance (with the newly-supported FP4 precision), and has 1.4TB of GPU memory and 64TBps of memory bandwidth.
