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Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, JUPITER, will enable breakthroughs in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerate modelling and simulation tasks, leading to new heights of scientific discovery. The system, procured by the European supercomputing initiative EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), will be operated by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), one of three national supercomputing centres within the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS). Since the middle of this year, JUPITER has been gradually installed at Forschungszentrum Jülich. While the final JUPITER system will be installed until early 2025, the vendors together with JSC staff installed the second module in preparation for the final system.

In a trial run using the Linpack Benchmark for the TOP500 list, JETI (the second module of Jupiter) achieved a performance of 83 petaflops, equivalent to 83 million billion operations per second (1,000 PetaFLOPs is equal to 1 ExaFLOP). This performance helped JETI achieve the 18^th position on the current TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. At the same time, JETI is highly energy-efficient, securing the 6^th position on the Green500 list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers.

To learn more about JETI, read the full press release at https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2024/new-jupiter-module-strengthens-leading-position-of-europe2019s-upcoming-exascale-supercomputer. To learn more about JUPITER, please visit the system’s webpage: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/jupiter

Funding:
JUPITER is funded half by the European supercomputing initiative EuroHPC JU and a quarter each by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW NRW).