First, the bad news. The ice is in terrible shape.
As always, our interest, because of the way ice melts, is in thickness rather than extent. Via the Danish Meteorological Institute:
One to 1 1/2 meters at the Pole with the entirety of Russia's Northern Sea Route wide open.
And the good news?
+++ SERVICE MESSAGE SEPTEMBER 2025 +++
+++ DELAYS OR BREAK IN SERVICE MAY OCCUR DUE TO SUPERCOMPUTER UPGRADE +++
From Nvidia, October 2024:
Denmark Launches Leading Sovereign AI Supercomputer to Solve Scientific Challenges With Social Impact
Country unveils its largest supercomputer, an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, inaugurated in partnership with the Danish Center for AI Innovation.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang joined the king of Denmark to launch the country’s largest sovereign AI supercomputer, aimed at breakthroughs in quantum computing, clean energy, biotechnology and other areas serving Danish society and the world.
Denmark’s first AI supercomputer, named Gefion after a goddess in Danish mythology, is an NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD driven by 1,528 NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and interconnected using NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking.
Gefion is operated by the Danish Center for AI Innovation (DCAI), a company established with funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the world’s wealthiest charitable foundation, and the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark. The new AI supercomputer was symbolically turned on by King Frederik X of Denmark, Huang and Nadia Carlsten, CEO of DCAI, at an event in Copenhagen.
Huang sat down with Carlsten, a quantum computing industry leader, to discuss the public-private initiative to build one of the world’s fastest AI supercomputers in collaboration with NVIDIA.
The Gefion AI supercomputer comes to Copenhagen to serve industry, startups and academia....
....MUCH MORE
And from the DMI, January 17, 2025:
DMI’s AI-model trænet på Gefion-supercomputeren forudsiger vejret på få minutter med høj præcision
