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On Friday, September 5, Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) unveiled its latest system to the public. In front of esteemed guests, including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Henrik Wüst, the JUPITER supercomputer was officially inaugurated, becoming Europe’s fastest and most energy efficient supercomputer. 

The system, which was developed by Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) and procured in collaboration with the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), is the first system in Europe to exceed at least 1 quintillion calculations per second, or an ExaFLOP/s. The EuroHPC JU funded half of the system, with the other half coming from the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space and the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Culture and Science through the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS). 

The inauguration marks a significant achievement for Germany and for Europe. JUPITER represents the latest investment in Germany’s scientific and economic competitiveness and serves as the vanguard of GCS’ strategy to provide researchers world-leading computational resources to help solve some of humanity’s hardest scientific and engineering challenges. 

For more information on JUPITER, please visit: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/jupiter

For a full report on the inauguration, please read the Forschungszentrum Jülich press release