Elon Musk has officially named Tesla’s new supercomputer cluster at Giga Texas ‘Cortex,’ a massive system featuring 100,000 NVIDIA H100/H200 GPUs dedicated to training AI for Tesla’s Full Self-Driving and Optimus robotics projects. The cluster requires a massive cooling system, consuming 130MW of power currently, with plans to expand to over 500MW in the next 18 months.
The US Department of Energy is seeking proposals for its next-generation supercomputer, ‘Discovery’, which is expected to be 3-5 times faster than the current world’s fastest supercomputer, ‘Frontier’. The new supercomputer will be housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is expected to be operational by early 2028.
Nvidia and Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) are partnering to develop a hybrid supercomputer that will integrate quantum computing capabilities. The system, expected to be available in 2025, will support various applications, from drug discovery to logistics optimization. The collaboration is part of Japan’s efforts to enhance its quantum computing capabilities.
