Eviden, the Atos Group business leading in advanced computing and ParTec announced a contract with EuroHPC to provide the very first Exascale supercomputer in Europe, to be operated by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (Germany) for an overall project cost of EUR 500 million. Using next generation GPUs and CPUs from NVIDIA and SiPearl, the consortium will manufacture the first European system able to surpass the threshold of one trillion calculations per second, a key milestone to ensure Europe?s scientific excellence and industrial independence. By achieving an outstanding level of computing power while decreasing the energy consumption, the system will enable new breakthroughs in critical domains while fostering innovation for the entire European scientific community.

JUPITER is designed to tackle the most demanding simulations and compute intensive AI applications in science and industry. Applications will include training large foundation models for generative AI, simulations for developing advanced materials, creating digital twins of the human heart or brain for medical purposes, validating quantum computers, and high-resolution simulations of climate that encompass the entire Earth system. Based on Eviden?s BullSequana XH3000 direct liquid cooled architecture, JUPITER will have three times the computing capability of Europe?s current most powerful supercomputer, and will provide the equivalent power of 10 million modern desktop computers.

The overall system will require the space of about 4 tennis courts and will use over 260km of high-performance cabling, allowing it to move over 2,000 Tb per second, the equivalent of 11,800 full copies of Wikipedia every second. It will be composed of two partitions, a highly scalable GPU accelerated Booster Module and a general-purpose Cluster Module with high memory bandwidth processors. The Booster Module will utilize next-generation NVIDIA data center technology and the Cluster Module will be based on SiPearl Rhea1, the first HPC-dedicated European processor on the market.