Nvidia’s JUPITER: The Next Generation of Fast Supercomputing
Powering the fastest supercomputer in Europe, Nvidia shows no signs of slowing down.
The semiconductor leader has pushed ahead with its supercomputing innovations in recent months, with its Grace Hopper Platform eager to drive scientific breakthroughs across Europe at exascale speed. It is made possible by Jülich’s JUPITER Supercomputer, with Nvidia technology boosting simulation and training.
According to Nvidia, JUPITER is now able to deliver a more than 2x speedup for high performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads, compared with the next fastest system.
- 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.
“AI will supercharge scientific discovery and industrial innovation,” says 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.”
A new era for AI and HPC
JUPITER is on track to be the first exascale supercomputer in Europe, with Nvidia saying it will soon be capable of running one quintillion FP64 operations per second.
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. This is designed to empower enterprises across Europe to drive scientific discovery and innovation.
Hosted by 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 JU.
“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.”
The supercomputer is made up of nearly 24,000 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips and interconnected with the NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking platform. It is expected to reach over 90 exaflops of AI performance and is based on Eviden’s BullSequana XH3000 liquid-cooled architecture.
“JUPITER is a landmark achievement for European science and technology,” shares Thomas Lippert, co-director 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.”
Which challenges JUPITER could solve
JUPITER is ultimately built for scientific breakthroughs. Incorporating Nvidia’s full stack of software for a more optimised performance, it represents a new generation of computing systems that is eager to solve a range of challenges across multiple sectors.
These include:
Climate and weather modeling:
Enables high-resolution, real-time environmental simulations and visualisation, using the NVIDIA Earth-2 open platform.
Nvidia says this contributes to global community initiatives like the Earth Virtualization Engines project, which aims to create a digital twin of the Earth to better understand and address climate change.
Quantum computing research:
Advances quantum algorithm and hardware development with powerful tools such as the NVIDIA CUDA-QTM platform and the NVIDIA cuQuantum software development kit.
Computer-aided engineering:
Reinvents product design and manufacturing through AI-driven simulation and digital twin technologies, powered by the NVIDIA PhysicsNeMoTM framework, NVIDIA CUDA-XTM libraries and the NVIDIA OmniverseTM platform.
Drug discovery:
Streamlines the creation and deployment of AI models vital to pharmaceutical research through the NVIDIA BioNeMoTM platform, accelerating time to insight in biomolecular science and drug discovery.
Nvidia continues to support scientific breakthroughs
Nvidia’s AI supercomputers serve as the computational foundation for a new category of data centres designed specifically for AI workloads.
These facilities, which Nvidia refers to as AI Factories, host the infrastructure that powers emerging AI applications and services across various sectors.
The company’s Grace Hopper superchip was touted as a breakthrough processor upon its release, designed for giant-scale AI and HPC applications. It is designed to deliver up to 10x higher performance for applications running terabytes of data – which enables scientists and researchers to find solutions for the world’s most complex problems.
As far as JUPITER is concerned, Nvidia technology could unlock an even faster era of AI innovation.
“JUPITER will substantially advance quantum algorithms and hardware development,” added Kristel Michielsen, co-director of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre. “Hybrid quantum HPC-computation will profit from powerful tools such as the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform and the NVIDIA cuQuantum software development kit.”
Emmanuel Le Roux, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Advanced Computing at Eviden, Atos Group, adds: “JUPITER’s launch is not just an extraordinary technical success – delivering an exascale machine and Julich’s modular data center in less than nine months – it marks a pivotal moment for European high-performance computing.
“It clearly demonstrated the technological leadership of the European Eviden-led consortium, which designed, built and delivered this world- class system.”
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