Denmark have launched Gefion, the country's largest sovereign AI supercomputer, designed to tackle critical challenges in quantum computing, clean energy, and biotechnology.
Named after a goddess in Danish mythology, the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD system features 1,528 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and utilises NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. The supercomputer will be operated by the Danish Centre for AI Innovation (DCAI), funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the world's wealthiest charitable foundation, and the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark.
The supercomputer has already in line several pilot projects. The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), plans to use Gefion to reduce weather forecast processing times, from hours to minutes while decreasing energy consumption. University of Copenhagen researchers will use the system for quantum computing simulations, advancing capabilities from 36 to 40 entangled qubits, approaching what's known as "quantum supremacy."
In healthcare and biotechnology, a collaboration between the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark, Novo Nordisk, and Novonesis, will develop a genomic foundation model for disease mutation analysis and vaccine design. Additionally, startup Go Autonomous will use the system to develop AI models for multi-modal input processing, while Teton plans to build an AI Care Companion with large video pretraining.
The initiative represents Denmark's commitment to developing sovereign AI capabilities, allowing the nation to produce artificial intelligence using its own data, workforce, infrastructure, and business networks. Researchers will also collaborate with NVIDIA experts on solutions in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and protein design using the NVIDIA BioNeMo platform, as well as fault-tolerant quantum computing using NVIDIA CUDA-Q.