Nvidia donates GB300 AI supercomputer to Naval Postgraduate School for military AI education

Nvidia Delivers Advanced AI Supercomputer to U.S. Military University

Nvidia and the Naval Postgraduate School announced that the AI chip leader has donated a supercomputer powered by its latest GB300 Grace Blackwell servers to the NPS Foundation, a nonprofit connected to the U.S. military university 1

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. The NVIDIA DGX GB300 system was commissioned at the NPS campus in Monterey, California, during a ceremony attended by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Adm. Samuel J. Paparo, commander of U.S. Pacific Command 2

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. This donation represents the first direct use of Nvidia's most advanced AI servers by the U.S. military, though Blackwell chips are planned for use in U.S. Department of Energy supercomputers 3

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Modernizing Defense Technology Through AI Education and Research

The Naval Postgraduate School, operated by the U.S. Navy, offers masters and doctoral degrees in fields such as computer science and aerospace engineering with an emphasis on their applications in warfare 1

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. The AI supercomputer gives more than 1,500 in-resident students and 600 faculty on-premises access to large-scale AI computing, including model training and inference capability for applications spanning weather prediction, cybersecurity, and disaster resilience and response planning 2

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. According to Adm. Paparo, "As we modernize our technology, we must also modernize how we educate our leaders. Access to advanced computing capability means NPS students and faculty understand the opportunities and responsibilities that come with these technologies" 3

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AI-Driven Defense Capabilities in a Global Arms Race

Jensen Huang emphasized that "AI will be a backbone of America's defense," as both the U.S. and China race to deploy AI for military purposes ranging from developing targeting lists to drone warfare 1

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. The system addresses AI's strengths in working through complex, fast-changing problems much faster than traditional computer simulation techniques 4

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. Trenton Hancock, chief information officer at NPS, noted that "what this system really gives us is the ability to explore more complex, real-world problems, especially those that mirror the challenges our operational fleet faces every day" 3

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Building AI Infrastructure for National Defense

The commissioning took place during the school's three-day Converge @ NPS event and marks the latest chapter in an ongoing collaboration to develop AI-based technologies at NPS 2

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. The system is built on an NVIDIA AI Technology Center on the Monterey, California campus and comes with NVIDIA Mission Control software 2

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. Nvidia has expanded the collaboration through its Deep Learning Institute, putting instructor toolkits in faculty hands so AI is woven through graduate curricula across departments 2

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. Through partnerships with MITRE, NPS has developed a framework built on NVIDIA Omniverse libraries that provides high-fidelity digital twin simulations for navigating real-world scenarios under uncertain conditions 2

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. Partners including DDN, VAST, and Vertiv contributed data infrastructure, storage platforms, and cooling systems to bring the advanced AI servers online 2

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