On the way to Exascale Computing

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre provides leading-edge supercomputer resources, IT tools, methods, and know-how. Computing time at the highest performance level is made available to researchers in Germany and Europe by means of an independent peer-review process. At the time being, JSC operates one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, JUWELS, and provides the first quantum computing infrastructure with JUNIQ. More about us...

Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert

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Exascale Supercomputer JUPITER

First containers set up at JSC

The first containers of the modular data centre for the European exascale supercomputer JUPITER are in place. The special modules were lifted into position with the help of a crane. They are the beginning of the new Modular Data Centre (MDC) in which JUPITER will be housed. JUPITER will be the first supercomputer in Europe to break the threshold of one quintillion (1.000.000.000.000.000.000) computing operations per second. The new exascale supercomputer takes scientific simulations to a new level and promises breakthroughs in the use of artificial intelligence. Thanks to its enormous computing power, simulations that previously took weeks or months can then be carried out in a fraction of the time. JUPITER will also be one of the world's most powerful supercomputers for training artificial intelligence. JUPITER is funded half by the European supercomputing initiative EuroHPC JU and a quarter each by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW NRW) via the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS).

Astrophysics

Flyby of a star explains dynamics of the solar system beyond Neptune

New findings suggest that billions of years ago, a star may have passed so close to our solar system that thousands of smaller celestial bodies changed their trajectory: Travelling in the outer solar system outside Neptune's orbit, they drifted into highly inclined orbits around the sun. It is possible that some of them were catapulted towards the sun and captured as moons by Jupiter and Saturn. This was discovered by a team of astrophysicists from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) and Leiden University in the Netherlands using computer simulations. The two studies were recently published in the renowned journals Nature Astronomy and Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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Supercomputers

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JUNIQ facility

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D-Wave Advantage™ System JUPSI

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Quantum Information Processing (QIP)

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