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The first European supercomputer comes to Jülich
Forschungszentrum Jülich becomes the scientific home of “Jupiter”. Photo: Oliver Berg/dpa
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The so-called exascale computer called “Jupiter” is intended to help clarify questions about climate change and sustainable energy production. Its performance is immense, but the price is high.
The Jülich research center becomes the location of the first European computer that can perform more than a trillion arithmetic operations per second. The research center announced on Wednesday that the computing power would exceed five million modern notebooks or PCs.
The so-called exascale computer called “Jupiter” should help to solve scientific questions such as climate change and sustainable energy production. Cost point: half a billion euros. Of this, 250 million come from the European supercomputing initiative EuroHPC JU and a further 250 million from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
NRW Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) said that the computer coming to Jülich was “an award for science and excellence overall in our country”.