All photos copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich
The Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany announced the start of installation for Europe’s first exascale-class supercomputer, Jupiter. The first containers of the modular data center for the have been positioned on the center’s base plate.
“Unlike our previous supercomputers, which are housed in conventional computing halls, Jupiter will be delivered in a modular computing centre,” JSC said. “Once completed, the modular high-performance centre consisting of around 50 containers will fill about half a soccer pitch.”
Last October, a French-German consortium composed of Eviden, the advanced computing vendor based in France, and ParTec, a German modular supercomputing company, announce a contract with EuroHPC to provide the system, to be operated by JSC for a project cost of €500 million euros.
At that time, the organizations said Jupiter will utilize next-generation GPUs and CPUs from Nvidia and SiPearl, an organization building a European high-performance low-power microprocessor for supercomputing and AI. The system is based on Eviden’s BullSequana XH3000 direct liquid cooled architecture, and estimates are that it will pack three times the computing capability of Europe’s current most powerful supercomputer. The system will use over260km of high-performance cabling, allowing it to move over 2,000 Tb per second.
Jupiter is funded half by the European supercomputing initiative EuroHPC JU and a quarter each by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia via the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing.
Here are photos of the installation provided by JSC:
