The U.S. Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory, NVIDIA and Oracle announced a public-private partnership to deliver the DOE’s largest AI supercomputer and accelerate scientific discovery.
The agency said the partnership will immediately provide AI computing resources to DOE researchers while building two next-generation AI systems at Argonne.
Solstice will feature 100,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and will be the largest AI supercomputer in the DOE lab complex, the department said. A second system, Equinox, will feature 10,000 Blackwell GPUs and is expected to be delivered in 2026.
“Winning the AI race requires new and creative partnerships,” U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright said in the announcement. “The two Argonne systems and the collaboration between the Department of Energy, NVIDIA and Oracle represent a new commonsense approach to computing partnerships.”
Oracle will provide immediate access to AI computing resources using NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell architectures, enabling scientists at Argonne and across the country to access new AI capabilities for science and energy applications, the department said.
The announcement follows the Energy Department’s plan for two AMD-accelerated systems, Lux (targeted 2026) and Discovery (2028), at Oak Ridge National Laboratory under a new public-private model, announced the previous day.
