Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and the king of Denmark this week inaugurated the country’s largest sovereign AI supercomputer.

The Gefion system, named after the Norse goddess of agriculture, is operated by the Danish Center for AI Innovation (DCAI), which was founded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark.

Hosted at a Digital Realty data center in Copenhagen, the supercomputer was installed by Eviden, an Atos Group company.

Gefion is made up of 191 DGX H100 systems with a total of 1,528 Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs and 382 Intel Xeon Platinum CPUs connected by Quantum 2 InfiniBand.

“Gefion is going to be a factory of intelligence. This is a new industry that never existed before,” Nvidia’s Huang said. “It sits on top of the IT industry. We’re inventing something fundamentally new.”

He added: “What country can afford not to have this infrastructure, just as every country realizes you have communications, transportation, healthcare, fundamental infrastructures — the fundamental infrastructure of any country surely must be the manufacturer of intelligence. For Denmark to be one of the handful of countries in the world that has now initiated on this vision is really incredible.”

Gefion is now being prepared for use, with a pilot project from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) set to be run first on the system. It is expected to reduce forecast times from hours to minutes.

Researchers from the University of Copenhagen will also use Gefion for large-scale distributed simulation of quantum computer circuits.

The University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark, Novo Nordisk, and Novonesis will also collaborate on a multi-modal genomic foundation model for discoveries in disease mutation analysis and vaccine design.

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