Where is the future being born?
The answer is simple — today it’s Germany, at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, where JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale-level supercomputer, has officially been launched. This is more than just a computational machine. It’s a new planet in the digital universe of science and AI.
At the heart of JUPITER is the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper architecture, combining CPU and GPU into a unified superchip and eliminating the traditional bottlenecks between memory and compute units. This isn’t just faster — it’s a fundamentally different level of data processing. The supercomputer delivers over one exaflop for AI workloads and around 90 petaflops for traditional scientific simulations. But numbers are just the tip of the iceberg.
What is it for? Climate modeling of the Earth down to the level of neighborhoods. Research into new materials for green energy. Development of medicines against cancer, Alzheimer’s, and rare diseases. Training Europe’s most powerful language models. Quantum simulations. Space missions. And just as importantly — strengthening sovereign European platforms in an era when dependence on external tech giants is a matter not just of economy, but geopolitics.
JUPITER is not merely Europe’s answer to American supercomputers like Frontier or Aurora. It is a declaration of EU technological sovereignty. The project was led by Forschungszentrum Jülich in partnership with NVIDIA, SiPearl, Eviden (Atos), and ParTec. Yes — Germany is now Europe’s gateway to the exascale era.
A separate point worth highlighting: energy efficiency. The Grace Hopper architecture allows JUPITER to consume six times less energy per petaflop than previous generations. This isn’t just computing — this is sustainable computing.
Factually speaking, JUPITER consists of tens of thousands of Grace Hopper Superchips, interconnected in modular accelerated computing nodes. A unique liquid cooling system keeps working temperatures stable under loads that, just a few years ago, would’ve been considered impossible.
Welcome to the exascale world.
German and other European researchers can now apply for access to JUPITER.
