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The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have signed an agreement to deploy HammerHAI—the first standalone supercomputer to be built under the auspices of the EuroHPC JU’s AI Factories initiative. The system will be hosted at the coordinating organization for the HammerHAI project, the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), one of three members of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS). 

“The contract signing for this AI-optimized system marks a new chapter in HammerHAI’s development,” said Dr. Bastian Koller, Managing Director of HLRS and lead coordinator of HammerHAI. “We invite future users of the system to begin preparing their datasets, algorithms, and workflows now. This will make it possible to begin taking advantage of the system’s powerful new capabilities as soon as it becomes available.” 

The system, which is scheduled to go into operation in the second half of 2026, will be installed by HPE. The system will be based on the liquid-cooled NVIDIA GB200 NVL4 architecture, which combines NVIDIA’s Grace CPUs with their Blackwell GPUs, and scaled with NVIDIA’s Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking. This configuration will make the HammerHAI system a powerful tool for medium to large-scale AI workloads that will incorporate a cloud-native software stack familiar to the AI user community. 

For more information on the HammerHAI system, read the full press release from HLRS: https://www.hlrs.de/news/detail/hammerhai-a-new-supercomputer-for-artificial-intelligence 

For more information on the HammerHAI project, please visit the project’s website.