# JUPITER: Europe’s first-ever Supercomputer to Reach a Trillion Operations per Second

URL: https://technosports.co.in/jupiter-supercomputer/  
Published: 2022-06-16  
Updated: 2022-06-16  
Author: Nivedita Bangari

The EuroHPC Joint Unit program of the European Union (EU) is pushing Europe’s drive for HPC (High-Performance Computing) significance. LUMI, which blends cutting-edge AMD technology in a quantum-ready system with breathtaking carbon-negative architecture, is already deployed but it is merely a prelude to the ultimate goal: The JUPITER. Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research supercomputer is the winner of this award.

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JUPITER will be installed in Jülich’s Supercomputing Centre in Germany, and the EU has set aside €500 million ($522 million) for infrastructure, hardware, and installation costs alone. The system, which is expected to go online after 2024, will be the first on the continent to reach a trillion operations per second.

## **JUPITER will be utilized for climate modelling, materials engineering, biological simulations, and research into sustainable energy generation while utilizing the most recent AI acceleration**

There hasn’t been any official indication on what hardware JUPITER will run on.  According to JUPITER’s star-based design, many supercomputing modules will be used in GPU visualization, including a universal, CPU-based accelerator cluster, a high-performance GPU cluster, a quantum computing node, and hot and cold storage clusters. In terms of more unique computational models, JUPITER will go one step farther than LUMI by incorporating a node dedicated completely to neuromorphic computing.

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While Frontier, the world’s most powerful supercomputer, consumes an average of 19 MW of electricity, JUPITER is reported to consume only 15 MW, a 22 percent reduction in power consumption within a few years of hardware development.

This is a roughly 50% reduction in power utilization when compared to the previous global champion in the supercomputing sector, Japan’s Arm-based Fugaku. Installed in 2020, it uses about 29 MW on average, with a peak performance of “only” 537.21 PFlop/s, less than half that of JUPITER.

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