Jupiter Exascale Supercomputer Claims 1St Place In Green500
HPCWire, Monday, May 13th, 2024
The first module of the exascale supercomputer JUPITER, named JEDI, is ranked first place in the Green500 list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers worldwide, as announced today by Forschungszentrum Julich and EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, together with the ParTec-Eviden supercomputer consortium at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg.
The JUPITER Exascale Development Instrument was installed in April by the German-French consortium and has the same hardware as the JUPITER booster module, which is currently being built at Forschungszentrum Julich.
The rapid pace of digitalisation and the increasing use of artificial intelligence requires an increasing amount of computing power and, in turn, energy. Data centres now account for 4 % of German electricity consumption, and this trend is increasing. As a result, efficient computing has become an increasingly important issue in recent years. Research as well as measures to increase energy efficiency have also been on the rise.