NVIDIA Powers Europe’s Fastest Supercomputer

NVIDIA announced that the JUPITER supercomputer, powered by the Grace Hopper platform, is the fastest in Europe. It delivers a speedup of more than two times for high-performance computing and AI workloads compared with the next-fastest system.

Soon capable of running 1 quintillion FP64 operations per second, JUPITER is on track to be Europe’s first exascale supercomputer. The system enables faster simulation, training, and inference of the largest AI models, including for climate modeling, quantum research, structural biology, computational engineering, and astrophysics, empowering European enterprises and nations to drive scientific discovery and innovation. Among the top five systems on the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers, JUPITER is the most energy efficient, at 60 gigaflops per watt.

Comprising nearly 24,000 GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips and interconnected with the Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking platform, JUPITER is expected to reach over 90 exaflops of AI performance and is based on Eviden’s BullSequana XH3000 liquid-cooled architecture. JUPITER also incorporates NVIDIA’s full stack of software for optimized performance.

“AI will supercharge scientific discovery and industrial innovation," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “In partnership with Jülich and Eviden, we’re building Europe’s most advanced AI supercomputer to enable the leading researchers, industries, and institutions to expand human knowledge, accelerate breakthroughs, and drive national advancement.”

Hosted by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre at the Forschungszentrum Jülich facility in Germany, JUPITER is owned by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. “With JUPITER’s extreme performance, Europe has taken a giant leap into the future of science, technology, and sovereignty,” said Anders Jensen, executive director of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. “JUPITER’s computing power will serve as a catalyst for scientific discovery, propelling foundational research across the continent in fields as diverse as climate modeling, energy systems, and biomedical innovation.”

“JUPITER is a landmark achievement for European science and technology,” said Thomas Lippert, codirector of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre. “Powered by NVIDIA’s accelerated computing and AI platforms, JUPITER is advancing the frontier of foundation model training and high-performance simulation, enabling researchers across Europe to tackle challenges of unprecedented complexity.”