Italian telco Fastweb has launched a Nvidia DGX SuperPod supercomputer.

Dubbed NeXXt AI Factory, the system is housed at Aruba’s data center in di Ponte San Pietro, near Bergamo in Italy.

The supercomputer is build on Nvidia DGX SuperPod reference architecture and consists of 31 DGX H100 servers, containing a total of 248 H100 Tensor Core GPUs.

While Fastweb has not confirmed the compute power of the system, each DGX H100 is capable of achieving 32 petaflops of FP8 AI compute, giving the supercomputer an estimated 992 petaflops of AI compute power.

According to Fastweb, it is the only company in Italy to have acquired this hardware. As a result, the system is the most powerful privately-owned DGX SuperPod AI supercomputer in Italy.

The NeXXt AI Factory will be used to power the first version of its large language model (LLM) MIIA (Italian Artificial Intelligence Model) which will made available to start-ups, companies, universities, and public sector organizations for the development of new AI and generative AI applications.

The LLM is reportedly the most reliable dataset in the Italian language, containing 1,500 billion tokens. A new version of MIIA is expected to be released by the end of the year.

“With NeXXt AI Factory and MIIA we are defining our approach to Artificial Intelligence to contribute to Italy’s full independence and technological sovereignty,” said Walter Renna, CEO of Fastweb.

“AI represents the last piece of our strategy through which we want to offer our business and public administration customers an increasingly integrated ecosystem of next-generation digital solutions ranging from high-performance and reliable connectivity to cloud services and cyber security services; from today we are finally ready to start developing advanced artificial intelligence solutions together with them.”