- Nvidia is donating one of its most advanced AI supercomputers to the US military’s flagship graduate university
- The supercomputer will be used across a range of applications, from simulations and digital twins to weather forecasting and cyber security
- “AI will be a backbone of US defense,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the commissioning of the supercomputer
Nvidia has donated a DGX GB300 AI supercomputer to the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, to support students, researchers and faculty in weather forecasting, cybersecurity, disaster resilience and response planning.
The supercomputer was commissioned with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in attendance. “Our nation depends on our men and women fighting on the front lines,” Huang said.
“Nothing is more valuable to you than information and insight, and timely information and insight, and understanding its impact and consequence. I can’t think of anything more important.”
AI supercomputer to be used for training, ocean modeling and digital twins
The Nvidia DGX GB300 is one of Nvidia’s most powerful AI servers and houses 72 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs alongside 36 Nvidia Grace CPUs, providing 20 TB of GPU memory at a bandwidth speed of up to 576 TB/s.
This will give the US military’s flagship graduate university an enhanced ability to train new AI leaders and enable more technical applications across internal base models, run simulations and use digital twins to train students from all branches of the military in real-world navigation and decision-making.
“Leadership is about being at the service of something else. You are at the service of your team. You are at the service of your country. You are at the service of your mission,” Huang said at the commissioning. “And all this technology is just tools to help you.”
Admiral Samuel Paparo, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, said, “As we modernize our technology, we must also modernize how we train our leaders. Access to advanced computing capabilities means that NPS students and faculty understand the opportunities and responsibilities that come with these technologies.”
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The AI supercomputer will also allow students to better understand ocean conditions and predict atmospheric changes, while equipping students for an increasingly AI-enhanced military.
The US and China are in fierce competition to implement better and better frontier AI models, with China quickly catching up despite extensive sanctions against the sale of AI chips to the country. Both nations are integrating AI systems into the military, police and government agencies.
“Many of you will command in AI-enabled environments. Information will move at lightning speed, compressing response times,” Paparo said. “Our advantage will come from leaders like you who can use technology to see, understand, decide and act faster while exercising the judgment, experience and leadership that machines cannot provide. That training is happening here at NPS.”
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