Inside Flyer, the Air Force's new AI supercomputer at Wright-Patterson
Flyer pairs AMD CPUs with Nvidia H100 and L40 GPUs for secure defense modeling, AI workloads and hypersonics research.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Why it matters
Flyer shows how military AI adoption is becoming an infrastructure race: the Air Force is buying secure compute to run its own models, simulations and vendor tests.
The Air Force Research Laboratory showed off Flyer on June 18th at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, putting a $20 million high-performance computing system into the center of the Air Force's AI and simulation push.…
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