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The Enterprise Europe Network informs:
05.09.2025
With the inauguration of the JUPITER supercomputer at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Europe has officially joined the global top class of high-performance computing. JUPITER is the first European system to exceed the exascale threshold - with over 10¹⁸ computing operations per second, comparable to the performance of around one million smartphones.
Currently the most powerful supercomputer in Europe and the fourth most powerful in the world, JUPITER combines extreme computing power with a clear focus on sustainability: the system uses only renewable energy and has been recognized as the most energy-efficient supercomputer module in the world (1st place in the Green500 ranking).
In the future, JUPITER will make a decisive contribution to climate research, AI development and Europe's digital sovereignty. Among other things, it will support the planned JAIF AI factory, where large language models for generative AI will be trained. The EUR 500 million investment by the EU and Germany is being made through the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and is part of a comprehensive strategy to build AI Gigafactories - powerful, energy-efficient data centers for the next generation of AI applications.
The background
The JUPITER initiative is part of the European strategy to build powerful AI infrastructures. Through the EuroHPC program, 13 AI factories have already been selected to serve as data centers for the development and training of advanced AI models in the future - including so-called AI Gigafactories with a focus on large-scale applications.
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Source: European Commission