TELUS Sovereign AI Factory named Canada's fastest and most powerful supercomputer

Executive Summary

• TELUS announced that its TELUS Sovereign AI Factory in Rimouski, Quebec has been ranked Canada’s fastest and most powerful supercomputer and placed 78th globally on the TOP500 list.
• The system achieved a performance score of 22.74 teraFLOPS (22.74 quadrillion calculations per second) using NVIDIA H200 GPUs, NVIDIA Quantum‑2 InfiniBand, and HPE ProLiant Compute XD hardware.
• TELUS highlights the facility’s role in accelerating AI/ML, healthcare research, climate modeling, and network optimization for Canadian public and private sector customers.

Key Details

• Ranking: 1st in Canada; 78th worldwide on the TOP500 list (published twice yearly).
• Performance Metric: 22.74 teraFLOPS measured via High‑Performance LINPACK (HPL) benchmark.
• Hardware Platform: Partnership with HPE; powered by NVIDIA H200 GPUs and NVIDIA Quantum‑2 InfiniBand interconnects; utilizes HPE ProLiant Compute XD servers.
• Strategic Significance: Demonstrates TELUS’s sovereign, Canadian‑controlled AI infrastructure capability; only Canadian telecom provider to achieve this distinction.
• Applications Enabled:
• Advanced AI model training, fine‑tuning, and inference for customer experience solutions.
• Healthcare innovation including drug discovery, genomic analysis, and complex medical research.
• Climate modeling and environmental sustainability initiatives.
• Network optimization for telecommunications service delivery.
• Quotes:
• Darren Entwistle, President & CEO, TELUS: “This international recognition…represents a defining moment for TELUS and for our country’s position in the rapidly advancing global technology landscape.”
• Trish Damkroger, SVP & GM, HPC & AI Infrastructure Solutions, HPE: “Powered by HPE ProLiant Compute XD, the TELUS Sovereign AI Factory is playing a critical role in helping Canadian organizations solve engineering problems and drive scientific breakthroughs.”

Notable Quotes

• “This acknowledgment further reinforces that Canada’s advanced sovereign infrastructure can compete with – and indeed surpass – the most formidable supercomputers on the planet.” – Darren Entwistle, President & CEO, TELUS
• “TELUS’ industry‑leading sovereign AI system was designed by HPE to apply our supercomputing expertise to advance public and private sector innovation.” – Trish Damkroger, SVP & GM, HPC & AI Infrastructure Solutions, HPE