France network security, cloud computing and high-performance computing company Atos Eviden company and the German modular supercomputer company ParTec formally announced on October 5, the two sides will work together to build Europe’s first tens of billions of times of superscalar supercomputer.
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According to the introduction, the project code-named “JUPITER”, the full name Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research”). The project was officially announced by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Program (EuroHPC JU) last year, and the tender was launched in January this year.
The overall cost of the JUPITER project could be up to 500 million euros (currently about RMB 3.845 billion), with the computer body costing 273 million euros (currently about 2.099 billion yuan), which will use the Arm architecture SiPearl Rhea processor and NVIDIA gas pedal technology, and will be operated by the Supercomputing Center in Jülich, Germany.
JUPITER will aim to support the development of complex systems, and high-precision models, which will be beneficial to solving problems in areas such as climate change, pandemics and fusion energy, and also enable the further widespread application of AI and massive data analysis.
The European High-Performance Computing Joint Program announced in the first half of last year that Germany would bring the first publicly available European tens of billions of times supercomputer mainframe, as well as four other smaller but still powerful supercomputing systems.
Jupiter will be “a pioneer in the joint endeavour of innovative and transformative tens of billions of research. The system will be launched next year in a specially designed building at the Forschungszentrum Jülich research center, operated by the Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC), alongside the existing Juwels and Jureca supercomputers.
The four mid-range systems are Daedalus, hosted by Greece’s National Research and Technological Infrastructure; Levente, from the Hungarian Government’s Information Technology Development Agency (ITDA); Caspere, from the National University of Galway in Ireland; and EHPCPL, from the Polish Academic Computer Center.
