JUPITER is about to develop into the primary European supercomputer to make the leap into the exascale period. This implies, it’ll be able to performing greater than an exaflop (or 1 quintillion) operations per second. In different phrases, the machine’s computing energy will surpass that of 5 million laptops or PCs mixed.
The European Excessive Efficiency Computing Joint Endeavor (EuroHPC JU), which is being behind the undertaking, has now signed a hosting agreement with the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) in Germany, the place JUPITER will probably be situated.
Beneath the phrases of the settlement, JUPITER (which stands for “Joint Endeavor Pioneer for Revolutionary and Transformative Exascale Analysis”) will probably be put in on the campus of the Forschungszentrum Jülich analysis institute in 2023. The machine will probably be operated by the JSC.
This new supercomputer will probably be backed by a €500million price range, break up equally between the EuroHPC JU and German federal and state sources.
A significant technological milestone for Europe
JUPITER’s exceptional energy will help the event of high-precision fashions of advanced programs. The machine will probably be used to analyse key societal points in Europe, similar to well being, biology, local weather, vitality, safety, and supplies. It’s going to additionally help intensive use of AI and evaluation of huge knowledge volumes.
Consultants count on the pc to enhance analysis high quality (whereas decreasing prices), and combine future applied sciences similar to quantum computing. The machine will probably be obtainable to a variety of European customers within the scientific group, business, and public sector.
Together with its excellent computing energy, JUPITER will function a dynamic, modular structure, which can allow optimum use of the varied computing modules used throughout advanced simulations. Notably, JUPITER has been designed as a “inexperienced” supercomputer and will probably be powered by inexperienced electrical energy, supported by a heat water cooling system. On the identical time, its common energy consumption is anticipated to be as much as 15 megawatts — roughly six megawatts lower than the US Frontier exascale supercomputer.
Upon completion, JUPITER will develop into the ninth (and finest) supercomputer the EuroHPC JU has offered to Europe. Three are anticipated to be obtainable shortly, and 5 are already operational. Amongst them is LUMI, which has been ranked the quickest within the EU and third quickest on this planet.