By Tobias Mann
Publication Date: 2025-11-26 18:47:00
This week, the Norwegian scientific community celebrated the completion of the Olivia supercomputer, which combines AMD CPUs with Nvidia Superchips to increase the country’s computing power by 16-fold and finally put fresh fish on the table.
Built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for Norway’s national scientific computing division, Sigma2, and located in an underground data center deep in the Lefdal mines, olivia combines 504 of AMD’s latest Turin CPUs and 304 Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips with 5.3 petabytes of HPE Luster storage via HPE Slingshot 11 200Gbps NICs
Nvidia’s Grace Hopper may not be its latest accelerator, but it has proven to be among the most energy-efficient ever made. The parts combine Nvidia’s 72-core Grace CPUs with a 144GB H100 graphics accelerator. Each of these 1000-watt chips is capable of delivering more than 67 teraFLOPS of FP64 math array for high-precision scientific workloads, or up to 4 petaFLOPS of scarce FP8…
