Evidence-backed European AI register
SURF
Reviewed identity, roles, model listings, pricing and evidence for SURF.
Dataset compiled 2026-08-27 · evidence over inference
Reviewed identity
- Headquarters scope
- EU headquarters
- Headquarters record
- Utrecht / Amsterdam
- Legal entity
- cooperative (coöperatie) owned by Dutch education and research institutions
- Ownership
- non-profit member cooperative (Dutch universities, UMCs, universities of applied sciences, research institutes)
- Founded
- 1986
- Confidence
- high
- Last verified
- 2026-08-22
Evidence boundaries
Organisation listings identify a reviewed canonical record. Model listings show an association in the source register; they do not by themselves establish model creation, current API availability, hosting location or infrastructure ownership.
Profile note
Operator of Snellius, the Dutch national supercomputer, and a co-owner of GPT-NL. Snellius was expanded with 352 NVIDIA H100 GPUs across 88 nodes (commissioned 11 July 2024), taking theoretical peak performance from ~15 PFlop/s to nearly 38 PFlop/s; SURF stated this was the final upgrade before a next-generation replacement system. SURF is the compute anchor of Dutch sovereign AI. No published commercial rate card — pricing recorded as null.
Record sources
- https://www.surf.nl/en/news/gpu-expansion-of-supercomputer-snellius-enables-even-faster-data-processing-for-d…
- https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/surfs-latest-snellius-upgrade-enhances-ai-research-capabilities-with-nvi…
- https://eurocc-netherlands.nl/snellius-supercomputer/
- https://www.surf.nl/en/themes/artificial-intelligence/gpt-nl
- https://www.surf.nl/