NVIDIA AI Supercomputer Comes Online at Naval Postgraduate School

On July 22, 2026, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang officially activated an NVIDIA DGX GB300 system at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California, bringing one of the world's most powerful AI platforms fully online for students, researchers, and faculty at the U.S. military's flagship graduate school.

The system is equipped with NVIDIA Mission Control software, providing local large-scale AI computing power for NPS's over 1,500 enrolled students and 600 faculty and staff, including model training and inference, with applications covering weather forecasting, cybersecurity, disaster resilience, and response planning.

Huang stated at the activation ceremony: "Our nation depends on the men and women who serve on the front lines. For you, nothing is more valuable than information and insight, and timely information and insight, and understanding its impact and consequences. I can't think of anything more important."

This activation is the latest chapter in the long-term collaboration between NVIDIA and NPS, aimed at developing AI-based technologies for education and practical applications. The deployment is based on the NVIDIA AI Technology Center—a dedicated AI research and graduate teaching center located on the Monterey campus, now powered by the DGX GB300.

Admiral Samuel Paparo, Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, said: "As we modernize our technology, we must simultaneously modernize the way we develop our leaders. Gaining advanced computing power means NPS students and faculty can understand the opportunities and responsibilities these technologies bring."

NPS educates active-duty officers and international partners, covering disciplines such as space operations and ocean science, awarding graduate degrees, with each program conducting applied research centered on direct relevance to real-world problems. Paparo emphasized: "Many will command in AI-enabled environments. Information will move at lightning speed, compressing response times. Our advantage will come from leaders like you, who can leverage technology to observe, understand, decide, and act faster, while applying judgment, experience, and leadership that machines cannot provide. This education is happening at NPS."

NPS regularly hosts hackathons, achieving progress in autonomous systems, ocean research, and operational planning. Researchers are using AI to simulate sea conditions, predict atmospheric changes, and build digital twins of complex environments. The DGX GB300 will provide computing power for these workloads on campus.

Through a partnership with the nonprofit MITRE, NPS has developed a framework based on the NVIDIA Omniverse library, providing high-fidelity digital twin environments for simulating real-world navigation and decision-making under uncertainty.

The DGX GB300 deployment was not done in isolation: DDN provides high-performance data infrastructure to help researchers efficiently access, manage, protect, and scale data; VAST Data provides a unified data platform for secure data access and management across edge, core, and cloud environments; Vertiv provides rack, cooling, and power infrastructure, as well as installation sequencing, testing and commissioning support, fluid management, and monitoring.