Kempner AI Cluster
The Kempner Institute’s state-of-the-art AI cluster and its dedicated team of research scientists and research engineers support advanced research on intelligence from biological, cognitive, and computational perspectives.
The Kempner Institute AI cluster is one of the largest and fastest academic AI clusters in the world with 1,144 GPUs– a mix of H200, H100, A100, and RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell architectures—providing a theoretical peak performance of 1.8 ExaFLOPS (BF16).
Customized for the needs of the Kempner’s academic research community, the cluster’s GPUs are linked in a single, purpose-built system designed to help researchers train, test, and refine large-scale AI models that support work in machine learning, neuroscience, robotics, biomedical research, and a host of other disciplines.
The expanded Kempner AI cluster, which will be fully online in Spring 2026, is comprised of:
- 424 NVIDIA H200 GPUs
- 384 NVIDIA H100 GPUs
- 144 NVIDIA A100 GPUs
- 192 RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs
Prior to its expansion in 2026, the Kempner AI cluster ranked 32nd on the Green500 and 85th on the TOP500 in November 2024 listing, making it one of the fastest and most energy-efficient supercomputers for advancing AI and neuroscience research.
Cluster expansion
The Kempner’s AI cluster opened with an initial pilot installation of 144 A100-40GB GPUs in Spring 2023, and added 384 H100-80 GB GPUs in Fall 2023. In March 2026, the Kempner announced a significant cluster expansion, more than doubling the cluster’s size with the addition of 424 H200 GPUs and 192 RTX PRO 6000 GPUs, for a total of 1,144 GPUs.
Server specifications
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Green high performance computing
The Kempner’s AI cluster resides in the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC), a modern datacenter in western Massachusetts shared by the Boston-area universities.