Nvidia unveils AI science software suite at ISC 2026

NVIDIA Debuts AI Science Software at ISC 2026, Accelerating Dark Matter Research and Materials Discovery

NVIDIA on Monday unveiled a suite of AI-powered software tools aimed at accelerating scientific discovery, from chemistry and materials simulation to the search for dark matter, as the ISC High Performance 2026 conference opened in Hamburg, Germany.nvidia

New Software for Science

The announcements include three new CUDA-X software releases: cuPhoton, DAQIRI, and updates to NVIDIA ALCHEMI. CuPhoton is a reference code for processing massive datasets from telescopes and dark energy surveys, developed in collaboration with Princeton and Harvard universities. DAQIRI is a new library focused on data acquisition for experimental science, while ALCHEMI provides AI-powered tools for chemistry and materials discovery through machine-learning interatomic potentials that can generate simulation data up to 1,600 times faster than traditional methods.theregister

The software releases are part of NVIDIA’s broader push to bring agentic AI into scientific computing. The company says the approach requires a new scientific computing stack that connects agents, simulation, and AI to accelerate discovery, powered by its Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell platforms along with Quantum InfiniBand networking.nvidia

Vera Rubin Platform and New Supercomputers

Alongside the software, NVIDIA announced its Vera Rubin platform, which delivers more than 7 exaflops of AI performance and 5 petaflops of native double-precision computing in a single rack. Major research institutions including the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, and Los Alamos National Laboratory are building next-generation supercomputers on the platform.nvidia

“Scientific discovery is now a race between the complexity of the world’s greatest challenges and the computing systems built to solve them,” said Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s founder and CEO. “NVIDIA Vera Rubin is a new instrument for science — a rack-scale supercomputer that brings simulation, AI and data processing together to help researchers and industries design and discover faster than ever.”nvidia

A Broader European Push

The ISC conference, running through June 26, also saw NVIDIA announce a record 35 new AI supercomputers in development across Europe. Vera Rubin NVL4-based systems are expected to be available from global system manufacturers in the fourth quarter of this year.nvidia