{"id":4257,"date":"2025-09-05T14:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/2025\/09\/05\/now-live-europes-first-exascale-supercomputer-jupiter-accelerates-climate-research-neuroscience-quantum-simulation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:46:14","slug":"now-live-europes-first-exascale-supercomputer-jupiter-accelerates-climate-research-neuroscience-quantum-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/2025\/09\/05\/now-live-europes-first-exascale-supercomputer-jupiter-accelerates-climate-research-neuroscience-quantum-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Live: Europe\u2019s First Exascale Supercomputer, JUPITER, Accelerates Climate Research, Neuroscience, Quantum Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><!-- OneTrust Cookies Consent Notice start for nvidia.com --><\/p>\n<p><!-- OneTrust Cookies Consent Notice end for nvidia.com --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.8 (Yoast SEO v25.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ --><br \/>\n\t<title>Europe\u2019s First Exascale Supercomputer, JUPITER, Now Live | NVIDIA Blog<\/title><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Stream WordPress user activity plugin v4.1.1 --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Hotjar Tracking Code for NVIDIA --><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/content\/dam\/1x1-00000000.png\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" alt=\"country_code\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"page\" class=\"hfeed site\">\n\t<a class=\"skip-link screen-reader-text\" href=\"#content\">Skip to content<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- #masthead --><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__hero light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__hero-content light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__hero-content__inner light\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tAt JUPITER\u2019s inauguration ceremony in J\u00fclich, attended by Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the J\u00fclich Supercomputing Centre and NVIDIA unveiled ways the supercomputer is already spurring innovation across the world.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__sections\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>The J\u00fclich Supercomputing Centre\u2019s JUPITER \u2014 Europe\u2019s first exascale supercomputer \u2014 is officially live.<\/p>\n<p>Unveiled today at the supercomputer\u2019s inauguration ceremony in J\u00fclich, JUPITER is accelerating innovative applications that are out of this world.<\/p>\n<p>Powered by the NVIDIA Grace Hopper platform, it\u2019s enabling breakthrough research in climate, neuroscience, quantum simulation and more.<\/p>\n<p>Based on Eviden\u2019s BullSequana XH3000 liquid-cooled architecture, JUPITER can run 1 quintillion FP64 operations per second and is expected to offer up to 90 exaflops of AI performance, delivering more than double the speed for high-performance computing and AI workloads compared with the next-fastest system in Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__full-width-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jupiter-racks-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"A look between the rows of JUPITER racks.\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-caption-callout\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tA look between the rows of JUPITER racks.\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-credits\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tImage courtesy of Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich \/ Sascha Kreklau.\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>\u201cJUPITER marks the culmination of more than a decade of research and development,\u201d said Thomas Lippert, director of the J\u00fclich Supercomputing Centre. \u201cAs the world\u2019s most advanced and versatile exascale system, it represents a unique innovation, opening up completely new possibilities for science and industry in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith JUPITER, Europe gains its most advanced AI supercomputer, built for large-scale simulation and AI, powered by NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips and Quantum-2 InfiniBand,\u201d said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. \u201cJUPITER fuses high-performance computing and AI into a single architecture. A platform for next-generation scientific computing, it will accelerate breakthroughs across every domain \u2014 from modeling climate and renewable energy to advancing quantum research, designing new materials and building digital twins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>JUPITER\u2019s ribbon-cutting ceremony was attended by a slew of Europe\u2019s AI and industry leaders and Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who highlighted how the supercomputer is driving national advancement and industrial innovation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__standard-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/merz-quote-pulled-1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"\u201cJupiter is the first European supercomputer, and the first outside the U.S., to have reached this level,\u201d Merz said. \u201cTogether today, we are witnesses to a historic European pioneering project.\u201d\" loading=\"lazy\">\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>Below are some exceptional numbers behind JUPITER, which 18 Germany-based and 15 European teams are among the first to access.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__standard-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jupiter-infographic-1-scaled.jpg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"24,000 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips interconnected with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. 51,000 network connections let JUPITER transmit 3x more data than all global data traffic at any given moment. Nearly 1 exabyte of storage. 50 specialized containers comprise JUPITER\u2019s modular data center. JEDI, one rack of JUPITER, is the No. 1 most energy-efficient supercomputer.\" loading=\"lazy\">\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<h2 class=\"full-width-layout__heading\">Why It Matters<\/h2>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>JUPITER, which stands for \u201cJoint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research,\u201d gives European startups, enterprises and researchers a massive leap in computing power so they can quickly, efficiently create breakthroughs in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Climate science, including weather prediction and simulation<\/li>\n<li>Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) for European languages<\/li>\n<li>Neuroscience, including for drug discovery and mapping the human brain<\/li>\n<li>Quantum simulation, to bring quantum computing closer to reality<\/li>\n<li>Along with many other disciplines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__full-width-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1151\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/aerial-view-julich-campus-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"Aerial view of the J\u00fclich Supercomputing Centre campus, including the modular data center, on the far left, which houses JUPITER.\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-caption-callout\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tAerial view of the J\u00fclich Supercomputing Centre campus, including the modular data center, on the far left, which houses JUPITER.\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-credits\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tImage courtesy of Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich \/ Sascha Kreklau.\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>For example, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology is using JUPITER to simulate climate predictions with a spatial resolution of about 1 kilometer, depicting extreme weather events such as violent thunderstorms and heavy rainfall much more realistically than before.<\/p>\n<p>The J\u00fclich Supercomputing Centre and a German consortium of nine European partners from research, industry and the media are tapping JUPITER for TrustLLM, a project that\u2019s training the next generation of LLMs for various European languages. Such LLMs can ease workflows across virtually every industry by generating humanlike responses and improving productivity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__standard-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/water-cooling-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"View of the rear of JUPITER booster racks, with warm water cooling.\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-caption-callout\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tView of the rear of JUPITER booster racks, with warm water cooling.\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-credits\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tImage courtesy of Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich \/ Sascha Kreklau.\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>Neuroscience researcher Thorsten Hater at the J\u00fclich Supercomputing Centre plans to use JUPITER to simulate the behavior of individual neurons on the subcellular level with the Arbor simulator. Such simulations will be crucial for developing therapies to combat neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, JUPITER is poised to break the world record for a supercomputer\u2019s ability to handle qubits, the basic units of information in quantum computing. A typical laptop\u2019s memory can handle about 32 qubits. The current record on a supercomputer is 48 qubits. An exascale computer like JUPITER could surpass 50 qubits \u2014 a significant milestone for quantum simulation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__standard-image-section\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jupiter-featured-still-1280x680-1.jpg\" class=\"full-width-layout__image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-caption-callout\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tView into a JUPITER rack with compute blades.\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-credits\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tImage courtesy of Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich \/ Sascha Kreklau.\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<h2 class=\"full-width-layout__heading\">Empowering European Researchers<\/h2>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>In Germany and beyond, JUPITER is powering Europe\u2019s most challenging research initiatives, helping scale the continent\u2019s AI leadership with optimal energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__full-width-video-section\">\n\t\t\t<video class=\"full-width-layout__video\" autoplay muted loop playsinline><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support HTML5 video.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/video><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-caption-callout\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tCooling systems on the roof of the modular data center that houses JUPITER.\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"full-width-layout__media-credits\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tVideo courtesy of Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich \/ Sascha Kreklau.\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__article-copy-section light\">\n<div class=\"full-width-layout__copy\">\n<p>Early flagship projects include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Molecular dynamics simulation:<\/b> The Max Planck Institute of Biophysics will use JUPITER to simulate the nuclear pore complex \u2014 the largest protein assembly in cells \u2014 to achieve atom-level insights, advance nuclear transport models and combat retroviruses like HIV.<\/li>\n<li><b>Multilingual LLMs<\/b>: With JUPITER, the University of Edinburgh will generate synthetic data to train LLMs that can reason over long documents in any language. More LLMs are being trained through the JUPITER Research and Early Access Program across Europe.<\/li>\n<li><b>Particle physics: <\/b>The University of Wuppertal will use JUPITER to significantly increase the resolution of its microphysical computations, including to study the magnetic moment of an elementary particle, called muon, and potentially discover new particles and interactions.<\/li>\n<li><b>Foundation models for video: <\/b>Using JUPITER, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich will develop spatio-temporal compression and diffusion architectures that enable the creation of high-quality, accessible video models to advance applications from medical imaging to autonomous driving.<\/li>\n<li><b>Multimodal AI foundation models<\/b>: The University of Lisbon will tap JUPITER to scale multimodal, multilingual, open language models \u2014 integrating concepts from machine learning, sparse modeling, information theory and cognitive science \u2014 so these LLMs can support all European languages and address the limitations of existing models.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Learn more about<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/tag\/supercomputing\/\"><i>how NVIDIA technologies enable supercomputing breakthroughs<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Featured video courtesy of Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich \/ Sascha Kreklau.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><!-- #colophon --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- #page --><\/p>\n<p><!-- #has-highlight-and-share -->\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/jupiter-exascale-supercomputer-live\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salarydistribution.com\/machine-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}