NVIDIA announced today that Germany’s Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, LRZ, will acquire that “Blue Lion” supercomputer that will deliver roughly 30x the compute power of SuperMUC-NG, the current LRZ HPC. The system will run on NVIDIA’s upcoming AI and accelerated science architecture, called Vera Rubin.
Blue Lion will use HPE Cray technology and feature NVIDIA GPUs in a system equipped with storage and interconnect that utilizes HPE’s 100 percent fanless direct liquid-cooling warm water systems architecture.
It’s built for researchers working on climate, turbulence, physics and machine learning, with workflows that blend classic simulation and modern AI. Jobs can scale across the entire system. Heat from the racks will be reused to warm nearby buildings, NVIDIA said.
Blue Lion will support collaborative research projects across Europe.
Last month, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab unveiled Doudna, its next flagship system that will also be powered by Vera Rubin.
NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin is the successor to the company’s Blackwell GPU and the Vera CPU — NVIDIA’s first custom CPU, built to work with the GPU.
“Together, they form a platform built to collapse simulation, data and AI into a single, high-bandwidth, low-latency engine for science,” NVIDIA said. “It combines shared memory, coherent compute and in-network acceleration.” It is scheduled to launch in the second half of 2026.
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