An Nvidia AI supercomputer has gone live at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California.

The DGX GB300 system will be available to the more than 1,500 in-resident students and 600 faculty at the institute and will support applications across weather prediction, cybersecurity, and disaster resilience and response planning.

Each DGX GB300 system features 72 Nvidia ConnectX-8 SuperNICs, delivering networking speeds of up to 800Gbps, double the performance of the previous generation. Eighteen Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs combine with Nvidia Quantum-X800 InfiniBand or Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet.

In addition to the Nvidia hardware, the AI supercomputer is also comprised of high-performance data infrastructure from DDN; a unified data platform from Vast Data; and racks, cooling, and power infrastructure provided by Vertiv.

The system is housed at NPS’s Nvidia AI Technology Center on the Monterey campus, a facility that functions as a dedicated hub for AI research and graduate instruction.

“As we modernize our technology, we must also modernize how we educate our leaders,” said Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of the US Pacific Command. “Access to advanced computing capability means NPS students and faculty understand the opportunities and responsibilities that come with these technologies.”

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who attended NSP to unveil the system, added: “Our nation depends on our men and women who fight on the front lines. Nothing is more valuable to you than information and insight, and information and insight in a timely way, and to understand its impact and consequence. I can’t imagine anything more important.”