Details Emerge On Europe's First Exascale Supercomputer
The Next Platform, Thursday, October 5,2023
Some details are emerging on Europe's first exascale system, codenamed 'Jupiter' and to be installed at the Julich Supercomputing Center in Germany in 2024.
There has been a lot of speculation about what Jupiter will include for its compute engines and networking and who will build and maintain the system. We now know some of this and can infer some more from the statements that were made by the organizations participating in the Jupiter effort.
In June 2022, the Forschungszentrum Julich in Germany, which has played host to many supercomputers since it was founded in 1987, was chosen to host the first of three European exascale-class supercomputers to be funded through the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and through the European national and state governments countries who are essentially paying to make sure these HPC and AI clusters are where they want them. With Germany having the largest economy in Europe and being a heavy user of HPC thanks to its manufacturing focus, Julich was the obvious place to park the first machine in Europe to break the exaflops barrier.