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Europe's Fastest Supercomputer To Boost AI Drive
- Europe will officially launch Jupiter, its quickest exascale supercomputer, on Friday at the research facility located in Juelich, Germany.
- Jupiter was developed by a consortium including Eviden and German group ParTec to address Europe's lagging AI capabilities compared to the US and China.
- The system, powered by about 24,000 Nvidia chips, will support AI training and long-term climate forecasting, as well as research like brain process simulation and drug development.
- According to Thomas Lippert, Jupiter is capable of performing over one quintillion calculations per second, consumes approximately 11 megawatts of power, and operates at a level of performance that surpasses all other German computers by a factor of twenty.
- The inauguration marks a key step for Europe to enhance scientific research, energy transition studies, and AI competitiveness despite reliance on US technology and souring US-Europe relations.
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Europe's most powerful supercomputer, Jupiter, was unveiled today in Germany at a research center in the western German city of Jülich. The computer, named Jupiter, is capable of performing one quintillion calculations per second, which is comparable to almost a million smartphones, according to DW. The 500 million-euro system, which is jointly funded by Germany and the European Union, is located at the Jülich Supercomputer Center and runs on 24…
Located in Jülich, Germany, Jupiter officially entered service this Friday, September 5. Presented as the first "exascale" supercomputer in the Old Continent, it occupies the equivalent of half a football field and lines up nearly 24,000 processors, at an estimated total cost of 500 million euros. Its computing power – one billion billions of operations per second – ranks it among the most efficient machines in the world.
»Jupiter« delivers a trillion computing operations per second: one of the world's most rapid supercomputers is launched in Jülich. Chancellor Merz promises to do so »all new possibilities«.
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Merz inaugurates supercomputer, says Europe can catch up in AI race
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday that Europe can catch up in the global artificial intelligence race as he inaugurated the continent's fastest supercomputer.
In Jülich the high-performance computer Jupiter is inaugurated. Europe thus closes to the world top. But why does it need the expensive project? Answers to the most important questions about the supercomputer.
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