Denmark launches sovereign AI supercomputer

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang joined the king of Denmark to launch the country’s largest sovereign AI supercomputer.

The AI supercomputer, named Gefion after a goddess in Danish mythology, is a DGX SuperPOD with 1,528 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs linked by the Nvidia Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking.

 The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) is in the pilot and aims to deliver faster and more accurate weather forecasts. It promises to reduce forecast times from hours to minutes while greatly reducing the energy footprint required for these forecasts when compared with traditional methods.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen are also using Gefion to implement and carry out a large-scale distributed simulation of quantum computer circuits with 40 entangled qubits.

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Gefion is operated by the Danish Center for AI Innovation (DCAI), a company established with funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the world’s wealthiest charitable foundation, and the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark. “Gefion is going to be a factory of intelligence. This is a new industry that never existed before. It sits on top of the IT industry. We’re inventing something fundamentally new,” said Huang.

Nvidia is encouraging countries to have sovereign AI supercomputer infrastructure as they build AI models and applications that reflect their own culture and language.