Austria's Multi-Site Computer Austria (MUSICA) supercomputer, spanning Vienna, Linz and Innsbruck, was officially inaugurated on July 3, 2026, delivering 45.11 petaflops from 1,088 NVIDIA H100 GPUs across 440 nodes - more than eight times the power of Austria's prior VSC-4/VSC-5 systems, according to the Austrian Scientific Computing consortium and TU Wien. The roughly EUR 45 million system pairs classical HPC simulation with AI-training capacity and links to OTTER, Austria's first production ion-trap quantum computer, making it one of the first national facilities to unify all three compute paradigms under one architecture. University leaders have already flagged a funding risk: hardware costs are fully covered, but further budget cuts could still threaten ongoing operating costs.
GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X at 2626 tok/s/node at over 2x lower cost than Blackwell