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16 July 2026, 17:15
2026-07-16
Lviv Polytechnic University will receive one of the world's most powerful supercomputer platforms for artificial intelligence
Lviv Polytechnic National University will receive one of the most modern supercomputer platforms for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. The equipment is scheduled to be put into operation in September 2026. Thanks to this step, the university will occupy one of the first places among higher education institutions in Ukraine in terms of the capabilities of its own local infrastructure for AI and high-performance computing.
Lviv Polytechnic National University will receive one of the most modern supercomputer platforms for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. The equipment is scheduled to be put into operation in September 2026. Thanks to this step, the university will occupy one of the first places among higher education institutions in Ukraine in terms of the capabilities of its own local infrastructure for AI and high-performance computing.
The acquisition of advanced equipment is taking place within the framework of the large-scale project "Improving Higher Education in Ukraine for Results", which is being implemented with the financial support of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the press service of the Lviv university reports .
The Department of Artificial Intelligence Systems has begun a market analysis to create a High-Performance Computing Center in early 2026. The working group conducted detailed consultations with industry leaders — Dell Technologies, Supermicro, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, ASUS, Lenovo, GIGABYTE, Cisco, as well as directly with representatives of NVIDIA.
The emergence of an innovative model from GIGABYTE on the market changed the entire course of negotiations: instead of choosing between proven platforms of the previous generation (H100 and H200), the university received a unique opportunity to immediately switch to the latest Blackwell architecture.
The heart of the future data center will be the full-featured 2U node GIGABYTE XN24-VC0 with direct liquid cooling, presented by the manufacturer in January 2026.
The server is equipped with two NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell superchips, which combine a total of 4 Blackwell graphics processors (GPUs) and 2 NVIDIA Grace central processing units (CPUs).
The platform is equipped with 744 GB of ultra-fast HBM3E memory for graphics accelerators and 960 GB of LPDDR5X for Grace processors, which is critical for working with giant data sets.
NVIDIA ConnectX-8 interfaces provide up to 800 Gbps of bandwidth, laying the foundation for future node aggregation.
Over 85% of the server's heat is dissipated through the liquid circuit. A GIGABYTE DL80-1B0 Liquid-to-Air CDU rack was selected specifically for the conditions of a university data center designed only for air cooling. It localizes the liquid infrastructure inside the rack and allows the system to be expanded in the future to 5 such servers (a total of 20 Blackwell GPUs).
Supercomputers on similar GB200 NVL4 nodes are currently being actively deployed by world scientific giants — in particular, at the Japanese RIKEN Institute (ROQUO supercomputer) and at the Italian CINECA consortium (IT4LIA AI factory).
The launch of a platform of this level opens up a colossal range of opportunities for Lviv Polytechnic, bringing Ukrainian science to the world stage:
Local launch of super-large language models (such as NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra or Kimi K2.5), full-parameter retraining, and creation of complex multi-agent systems for autonomous scientific search.
Designing digital twins, developing generative media models and 3D reconstructions for robotics needs.
Molecular dynamics modeling to find new materials and battery components, genomic data analysis, and protein modeling to create drugs in bioinformatics.
Highly detailed weather forecasting, aerodynamic modeling, and development of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms in the CUDA-Q environment.
The Polish charitable foundation "Postup" and Lviv Polytechnic University are automating mine clearance in Ukraine. Special drones and a ground platform are already under development
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