Germany’s Dresden University of Technology (TUD) is planning to deploy a new supercomputer from Atos/Eviden at its Center for Information Services and High-Performance Computing (ZIH).

Dubbed Deneb, the BullSequana XH3500-based system will be powered by two Nvidia Grace Blackwell superchips and, in total, comprise 184 “next-generation GPUs” and two petabytes of storage. The system also represents the first time Arm-based CPUs will be deployed by the university.

Costing around €9.4 million ($11m), Deneb was jointly funded by the Germany federal government, the Free State of Saxony, and the AI competence center ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig. The new supercomputer will be housed at the university’s Lehmann Center data center at Lehmann Zentrum Rechenzentrum and is expected to go into operation in the fourth quarter of 2026, TUD said in a statement.

Like its predecessors, Capella and Barnard, Deneb’s water cooling system will allow 97 percent of the heat generated to be reused to heat nearby buildings or feed into the district heating network.

“Deneb is more than a technical upgrade. It represents the type of research infrastructure needed to enable responsible, large-scale AI research across disciplines,” TUD’s Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Sciences, said in a post on LinkedIn. “Sustainability is an integral part of its design: Using warm-water cooling with high heat recovery, waste heat will be reused locally for district heating and surrounding buildings. Deneb illustrates how research infrastructure, AI development, and energy efficiency need to be considered together.”