HPE announced the delivery of Olivia, Norway’s most powerful supercomputer. Olivia, which is housed at the Lefdal Mine Data Center, is a significant advancement for digital sovereignty, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing (HPC) in Norway.

The system, which is powered by Norway’s renewable energy, supports national research and innovation by combining performance with energy efficiency.

The Research Council has recommended NOK 3.4 billion ($340 million) in HPC and AI financing over five years to secure knowledge, preparedness, and security, which is in line with Norway’s national policy for AI.

The system, which is based on the HPE Cray EX Supercomputing EX4000 and has 504 AMD Turin CPUs, 304 NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips (which each combine an NVIDIA Grace CPU with an NVIDIA Hopper GPU using NVLink-C2C to accelerate giant-scale AI and HPC), 5.3 petabytes of HPE’s Lustre Storage, and an HPE Slingshot interconnect, increases Norway’s national compute capacity by 1600% while using 30% less power than Betzy.

Olivia is listed as the 134th most powerful supercomputer in the world as of November 2025.

“The system delivers scalable performance for AI and scientific workloads, supporting Norway’s strategic goals in research, innovation, and AI.”

Said, Kristen Ottestad Sales Director and Signatory for HPE Norway.

“Olivia represents a significant advancement in Norway’s national compute capabilities. By integrating HPE’s HPC and AI expertise with AMD CPUs and NVIDIA Superchips that combine NVIDIA CPUs with NVIDIA GPUs to deliver exceptional computing power and energy efficiency, the system delivers scalable performance for AI and scientific workloads, supporting Norway’s strategic goals in research, innovation, and AI.”

Regardless of institutional affiliation, Olivia will be accessible to researchers across the country, guaranteeing fair access to AI and computational resources. Olivia enables Norwegian researchers to take on challenging scientific problems in fields ranging from health and language AI to climate modeling and marine science.