Supercomputers/Systems/Roche AI Factory
USA · operational · ai training
Roche AI Factory
Operated by Roche at Genentech, South San Francisco .
Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1092 of 1153 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 40 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.
Measured performance
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- Cores
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- Power
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- Per watt
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Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.
| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrator | - NVIDIA BioNeMo, Omniverse and Parabricks software stack | NVIDIA | - | Reported | roche.com |
| Accelerator | - 2,176 new NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs added on premises in this expansion; more than 3,500 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs total across on-premises and cloud | NVIDIA | - | Verified | roche.comeuropean-biotechnology.com |
AI datacenter metrics
Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.
| Metric | Value | As of | Basis | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerators | 2,176 accelerators | 2026-03 | Operator stated | Roche release: 2,176 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs on premises across US and Europe; more than 3,500 GPUs including cloud. Value is on-prem only. | roche.compharmafile.com |
The read
Roche's hybrid-cloud NVIDIA AI factory, announced 16-18 March 2026 and first rolled out at its US subsidiary Genentech in South San Francisco before extending across the group (including German sites in Penzberg and Mannheim). Roche's own release and the independent trade title European Biotechnology Magazine both state the on-premises-plus-cloud footprint now exceeds 3,500 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs (2,176 of them newly added on premises in this expansion), which is why that count is recorded as verified; neither source gives an HPL or vendor-peak FLOPS figure, a core count, or power draw, so those fields stay blank. Applications named include drug discovery, clinical development, manufacturing and diagnostics via NVIDIA BioNeMo, Omniverse and Parabricks. No TOP500 submission was found.
Site & facility
Genentech, South San Francisco
- Location
- South San Francisco, CA, USA
- Commissioned
- 2026
Change history
- 2026-09-24 Roche AI Factory added (USA)
Source check
We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.
| Cited source | Result | Found on the page |
|---|---|---|
| european-biotechnology.com | names system only | - |
| roche.com | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.