NVIDIA Brings the Fastest Supercomputer in Europe, JUPITER
Europe is marking the dawn of a new high-performance computing era with the unveiling of its fastest supercomputer to date – JUPITER. With the use of NVIDIA’s Grace Hopper platform, JUPITER has been designed to accelerate scientific research and innovation across Europe. Located at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany, JUPITER has truly outperformed known benchmarking standards, not only being the most powerful, but also the most energy-efficient and the technological speed at which it will conduct evaluations is astounding.
JUPITER is capable of executing as many as 1 quintillion processes each second of double precision, enabling it to perform complex simulations relating to human behaviour, particularly in announcing tasks that require massive AI training of images and data. JUPITER will change the way researchers conceptualise scientific problems and announce solutions to problems, whether they be in climate modelling, structural biology, quantum research or engineering. It has already been benchmarked and is being rated as the fifth fastest supercomputer in the world, and as the fastest supercomputer to perform complex evaluations and energy efficient solution.
The system is composed of nearly 24,000 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips with NVIDIA’s Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. It is expected to achieve more than 90 exaflops of AI performance. Designed by Eviden leveraging the BullSequana XH3000 hardware design, the architecture utilizes liquid cooling, enabling efficient, stable performance.
JUPITER also benefits from full access to NVIDIA’s software stack and to harness the capabilities promised by quantum computing, computer-aided engineering, and drug discovery. Such applications include using extensively the CUDA-Q platform, the cuQuantum SDK, and BioNeMo, enabling researchers to work on problems that have become, to date, either too large or too complex to simulate.
As pointed out by other industry leaders and NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang, JUPITER represents a significant milestone in fostering innovation and research across Europe. Hosted by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and not simply a technological advancement, this project represents an important first step toward greater European leadership on the worldwide stage of scientific knowledge.
JUPITER’s supercomputer infrastructure is already being made available for researchers and institutions throughout Europe who are hungry for its power and speed, and what it will enable in terms of new discoveries, including in the fields of AI, environmental science, biomedical research, and beyond.
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