NVIDIA has announced that the JUPITER supercomputer, powered by its Grace Hopper platform, is now Europe's fastest supercomputer. The system offers over twice the speed for high-performance computing and AI workloads compared to the next-fastest system in Europe.
JUPITER is expected to soon perform 1 quintillion FP64 operations per second, marking it as Europe's first exascale supercomputer. This capability allows for faster simulations and training of large AI models in various fields such as climate modeling, quantum research, structural biology, computational engineering, and astrophysics.
Ranked among the top five systems on the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers, JUPITER stands out for its energy efficiency at 60 gigaflops per watt. It consists of nearly 24,000 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips and uses NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking technology. The system is projected to achieve over 90 exaflops of AI performance using Eviden’s BullSequana XH3000 liquid-cooled architecture.
NVIDIA's full software stack optimizes JUPITER's performance. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, stated: “AI will supercharge scientific discovery and industrial innovation." He added that their partnership with Jülich and Eviden aims to build Europe's most advanced AI supercomputer to support researchers and industries in expanding knowledge and driving advancements.
The Jülich Supercomputing Centre at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany hosts JUPITER, which is owned by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. Anders Jensen from EuroHPC highlighted JUPITER's role in advancing science across Europe: “With JUPITER’s extreme performance, Europe has taken a giant leap into the future of science, technology and sovereignty.”
Thomas Lippert from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre noted that "JUPITER is a landmark achievement for European science and technology," while Kristel Michielsen pointed out its benefits for quantum algorithm development through tools like NVIDIA CUDA-Q.
Emmanuel Le Roux from Eviden praised the project's rapid completion: “JUPITER’s launch is not just an extraordinary technical success — delivering an exascale machine...in less than nine months — it marks a pivotal moment for European high-performance computing.”
Early testing with Linpack benchmark confirmed its ranking on the TOP500 list. German and other European researchers can apply for access to use this new generation computing system aimed at tackling complex challenges across various domains including climate modeling, quantum computing research, computer-aided engineering, and drug discovery.