Rahul Somvanshi
Denmark’s quantum leap into supercomputing materialized as Gefion powered up its 1,528 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. The system’s quantum-classical hybrid architecture, spanning 65 kilometers of cable across its 30-ton frame, now processes computations inside Digital Realty’s Copenhagen facility.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang quantified Gefion’s impact: “Gefion is going to be a factory of intelligence. This is a new industry that never existed before. It sits on top of the IT industry. We’re inventing something fundamentally new,.” The DGX SuperPOD architecture implements NVIDIA’s Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, enabling coherent data processing for quantum circuits.
The 600 million Danish kroner ($87M) from Novo Nordisk Foundation plus 100 million kroner ($14.5M) from EIFO translate to a 15% ownership stake. DCAI’s CEO Nadia Carlsten cited the six-month deployment time from announcement to completion.
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Real-world applications emerged when 50 research proposals arrived within three weeks. Current projects include molecular recognition quantum algorithms running at University of Copenhagen’s research space. DTU researchers probe CO2 reduction pathways through machine learning. Go Autonomous explores multi-modal document processing. Teton’s AI care companion development maps to healthcare applications. Danish Meteorological Institute models atmospheric predictions.
The system’s BioNeMo platform accelerates pharmaceutical and biotechnology research. CUDA-Q enables fault-tolerant quantum computing development. Prior to Gefion, Denmark’s computing infrastructure contained zero GPU-accelerated supercomputers.
Eviden’s integration team achieved 100% renewable energy operation at Digital Realty’s Copenhagen facility. Applications span drug discovery, genomic analysis, climate modeling, and renewable energy optimization through AI-driven algorithms.
This computational infrastructure aligns with Denmark’s framework for EU AI Act compliance, implementing secure data handling and risk mitigation protocols. Gefion now connects with the global network of sovereign AI supercomputers, expanding Denmark’s computational capacity in genomics research, climate modeling, and pharmaceutical discovery.
