Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2029

by Sami_Lehtinen • 11 months ago

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convolvatron• 11 months ago

something with a little more technical detail:

https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/jupiter/tech

looks like its just a big Nvidia installation. IB, Ceph, K8s, H100s

bayindirh• 11 months ago

If that’s “so simple”, why we don’t see everyone “just” doing the same?

BrouteMinou2• 11 months ago

It might just be expensive... Some other countries might just not need those when they are struggling to get fresh water...

And so on, but that's just my 2 cents.

dotnet00• 11 months ago

To be fair, being "just" a big Nvidia installation doesn't really mean that it's "so simple" (person you're replying to didn't claim it was simple), considering that every "Nvidia installation" has a slightly different set of factors like node count, per node memory, CPU choice, and networking configuration. All it says is, like many (most?) other modern supercomputers, it's a giant NVIDIA GPU cluster.

ofrzeta• 11 months ago

a 21 Petabyte Flash Module (ExaFLASH) is provided based on the IBM Storage Scale

Nice. How much does this cost?

The scratch storage is based on 20 IBM Storage Scale 6000 systems utilizing NVMe disk technology, based on the IBM Storage Scale solution. With 29 PB of raw and 21 PB of useable capacity

That's also a lot of waste, isn't it?

conception• 11 months ago

With 29 PB of raw and 21 PB of useable capacity.

RAID gonna RAID.

poisonborz• 11 months ago

Don't know why your're downvoted, this is valid criticism. EU just bought 500 mil worth of hardware from the US, no specific European innovation, apart from system management (ParTec Italy). But would be happy to be proven otherwise.

frodo8sam• 11 months ago

Who exactly were you going to buy equipment from? AMD/Nvidia/Intel are the only players in town.

mrtksn• 11 months ago

It was probably more like system designed in Europe, made in China, assembled in Europe thing.

Sure, the HQ of the core component(Nvidia) is incorporated in US but that too is a multinational effort.

mytailorisrich• 11 months ago

Germany got European taxpayers to buy them US hardware. That's a fairly normal day in the EU.

StrangeDoctor• 11 months ago

Seems like it has 5 petaflops of compute from a SiPearl (French) designed Rhea-1

Edit: that might be speculative or a future addition cause they taped out less than 2 months ago https://www.eetimes.eu/sipearl-tapes-out-rhea1-processor-clo...

Which was delayed 2 years. I’m speculating this was supposed to be mostly or exclusively this but they needed a computer now. Or needed to spend the budget now.

croes• 11 months ago

So US supercomputers aren’t an achievement because they just bought chips from Taiwan and those aren’t also an achievement because they bought photolithography machines from ASML in Europe?

Since when are supercomputers anything other than just the ability to afford a lot of hardware?

zkmon• 11 months ago

"With JUPITER, Europe becomes the home of the most powerful computer in Europe" -- Henna Virkkunen

What does that mean?

jerf• 11 months ago

My guess is that it means that not only does "Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy" write her quotes with AI without reading them carefully, but that she's also doing it with an older model.

pona-a• 11 months ago

Maybe they wanted to say “with [JUPITER, Europe],” as in “CERN, Switzerland.” This would still be unnecessary and confusing, but that’s the most sense I can make of it.

vjvjvjvjghv• 11 months ago

I am assuming before JUPITER the most powerful computer in Europe was not at home in Europe?

shreddit• 11 months ago

To quote zefrank: The tallest giraffe is taller than all other giraffes

bprew• 11 months ago

I took it to mean that the controller of the most powerful computer in Europe is Europe, as opposed to Apple or Google or another private entity.

wvbdmp• 11 months ago

I think it’s pretty clear if you read the rest of the sentence, which you’ve omitted: “and the fourth most powerful in the world”. If she hadn’t said “in Europe”, the whole top 3 might be in Europe as well.

johnfn• 11 months ago

I mean, it's a straightforward enough statement. But what was happening in Europe before..?

npalli2• 11 months ago

Confusing grammar aside, the most powerful computer before this was HPC6 in Italy which is definitely in Europe.

https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2025/06/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputing_in_Europe

WaltPurvis2• 11 months ago

Your Top 500 link says something completely different:

"The 65th edition of the TOP500 showed that the El Capitan system retains the No. 1 position. With El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora, there are now 3 Exascale systems leading the TOP500. All three are installed at Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories in the United States."

HPC6 is listed below those, and far less powerful.

jujube3• 11 months ago

Sounds like a dril quote.

pchangr• 11 months ago

I believe this refers to the fact that, before Jupiter, the most powerful computer in Europe was HPC6, which is owned by Eni S.p.A, a private company, and the following most powerful computer was the Alps system, located in Switzerland. So, in this context, this new supercomputer is owned by Europe, “the public” and it’s located in the European Union sovereignty within Europe, the continent.

Edit: I found the full quote in the website of the Jülich Development Center and I guess it makes sense why it was editorialized for the eu-wide website.

“This is a historic milestone. With JUPITER, Europe is reaching the highest level of high-performance computing. JUPITER is also a testimony for Germany's long leadership in HPC. Today, it became the home of the most powerful computer in Europe and the fourth most powerful in the world. From European perspective, JUPITER is a pioneer. It shows that when we combine national vision with European cooperation, we can achieve global excellence.”

Source:

https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2025...

araes• 11 months ago

From the add I did over on WP Current Events, based on the June preliminary system test (data from Top 500 https://top500.org/lists/top500/2025/06/):

"It is currently being commissioned and has achieved a preliminary HPL value of 793.4 Petaflop/s on a partial system."

Top 500 Rank: 4 (behind El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora at the DOE)

System Config: JUPITER Booster - BullSequana XH3000, GH Superchip 72C 3GHz, NVIDIA GH200 Superchip, Quad-Rail NVIDIA InfiniBand NDR200, RedHat Enterprise Linux

Manufacturer: EVIDEN https://eviden.com/solutions/high-performance-computing/hpc-...

Location: EuroHPC/FZJ, Germany https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/jupiter

Cores: 4,801,344

Rmax (PFlop/s) / Rpeak (PFlop/s): 793.40 / 930.00

Power (kW): 13,088

dr_dshiv• 11 months ago

Honest question: what will likely be done with a computer like this?

thegreatpeter• 11 months ago

Find websites that don’t properly handle GDPR

valkmit• 11 months ago

This cracked me up, I'm absolutely dying

globalnode• 11 months ago

crack passwords?

notrealyme1232• 11 months ago

Looks like a research cluster. Universities / their Researcher can apply for reasources instead of setting up own hardware.

Zyten• 11 months ago

Quite a varied field of research. From Computer Science and Neuroscience to Climate Research and more. You can find an overview for some of the HPC systems here: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/systems/supercomputers/...

Rover222• 11 months ago

How do the gpu training clusters rank against the traditional “largest supercomputer” metric? Or is that comparing apples to oranges?

I think by some measures XAi already has the largest (200k H100 equivalent) and already constructing the 1 million gpu cluster.

pjmlp• 11 months ago

The actual technical details,

https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/jupiter/tech

Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter

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