Four new NVIDIA DGX Spark supercomputers arrived yesterday to boost our distributed computing and AI capabilities.

Yesterday, Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste received four NVIDIA DGX Spark units, delivered in person by Alberto Pezzetta from BeanTech, an NVIDIA partner. These systems are currently available in very limited quantities worldwide. The DGX Spark is a compact supercomputer: roughly the size of a small hardcover book and designed to bring AI computing directly to the point where data is generated. This is particularly valuable in an environment like ours, where the daily operations of our two accelerators — Elettra and FERMI — together with more than 30 experimental stations, produce large volumes of data that require fast and efficient analysis. These systems will be used within eAI, Elettra’s initiative dedicated to developing artificial intelligence technologies for synchrotrons and free-electron lasers (FEL). Their compact size makes them easy to integrate at various points across the infrastructure, supporting automation, optimisation, and data-processing workflows close to the experiments themselves. Four compact supercomputers that will further support the scientific activities of Elettra and FERMI through distributed and efficient data processing