Nvidia’s Blue Lion Supercomputer Boosts Europe’s Tech Edge

- Nvidia, HPE partner with Leibniz Supercomputing Centre for "Blue Lion" supercomputer. - "Blue Lion" to use Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips, targeting biotechnology and climate research. Nvidia and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a partnership with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich, Germany, to jointly develop a new supercomputer named "Blue Lion." This project was announced on June 10, 2025, at a supercomputing conference in Hamburg, Germany. On June 10, Reuters reported that the Blue Lion project aims to enhance Europe’s supercomputing competitiveness, particularly in the fields of biotechnology and climate studies. The Blue Lion system will use Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin chips, and the project team expects it to be operational for scientific use by early 2027. Blue Lion's development is part of broader European efforts, through which Europe aims to remain competitive in high-performance computing against U.S. initiatives. Furthermore, the Blue Lion announcement follows a similar declaration from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the U.S., which plans to build a supercomputer with Vera Rubin chips next year. At the Hamburg event on June 10, Nvidia also introduced its "Climate in a Bottle" AI model. According to The Economic Times on June 10, Nvidia designed this new AI model, which allows scientists to generate long-term climate forecasts with reduced computation time by using initial conditions like sea surface temperatures. Additionally, the Blue Lion announcement builds on existing high-performance computing advancements in Europe. For instance, Cryptopolitan reported that the Jupiter supercomputer, operated by the German national research institute Forschungszentrum Julich and also using Nvidia's chips, is now Europe’s fastest.