The Dutch innovation business founded by Arkady Volozh, the billionaire co-founder of Russian internet giant Yandex, on Wednesday revealed among the worlds most effective supercomputers.The brand-new system, named ISEG2, debuted today at No.
13 on the TOP500 list, the leading international ranking of supercomputer performance.That makes ISEG2 the most effective commercially readily available system in Europe and the second most powerful commercially offered supercomputer throughout the world, Nebius stated in a statement on X.ISEG2 is housed at the Verne Global information center, which is located on a decommissioned NATO base in Iceland and powered totally by hydroelectric and geothermal energy.The supercomputer has a peak efficiency of 338.49 PFlop/s, more than 10 times the capability of the most powerful Russian equivalents.
By contrast, the top-ranked Russian system, Yandexs Chervonenkis, delivers 29.42 PFlop/s and ranks 79th on the TOP500 list.Nebius very first supercomputer, ISEG, launched in a transformed Yandex data center near Helsinki, Finland, and presently ranks 39th in the world.Nebius is headquartered in the Netherlands, and its systems are officially credited to that country in the worldwide ranking.The company prepares to expand its supercomputers to Israel next, having won a $135 million grant in May from the Israel Innovation Authority to construct one of the systems there.Volozh relocated to Israel from Russia in 2014.
In August 2023, over a year after the major invasion of Ukraine, he stated that he was categorically against the war.In a January 2025 interview with Bloomberg, he stated his hold-up in speaking up was due in part to efforts to move more than 1,000 Yandex workers who wanted to leave Russia and sign up with Nebius.Volozh stated he employed an individual security detail after President Vladimir Putin openly described him as a talented person a remark that lots of viewed as a possible threat in response to his anti-war declaration.