SC24 Recap: Huge, exciting – and very successful!
While some participants are probably still reflecting the numerous impressions from the Supercomputing Conference, it is actually high time for a summary! The SC24 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta welcomed a record-breaking 18,000 attendees (up 28 % from last year) making it an impressive annual gathering for the HPC community. It highlighted the rapid pace of technological development in HPC and related fields, when professionals, researchers and engineers presented and discussed the latest advances in supercomputing, AI and quantum computing.
Our motto, “Unleashing Next-Gen Computing Power!”, followed us all through this action-packed week full of meetings, presentations, workshops, tutorials, BoFs, panel discussions and booth talks.
With 25 JSC people on site, numerous experts from various fields were available to visitors and cooperation partners throughout the week for discussions and questions. At our booth one of our HPC experts shared the latest news on JUPITER, our business partner in the field of quantum computing, Pasqal, gave an exciting lecture on the topic of drug development using modern quantum machine learning, and two of our colleagues, who devote some of their time to the network “Women in HPC (WHPC)” explained how to establish and operate a WHPC Chapter.
Apart from that, we offered diverse activities with opportunities for direct interaction (not least: Quantum Tetris!) and had our attention-grabbing model of a quantum simulator right at our booth. We were also pleased to give visitors the opportunity to live-code our D-Wave Advantage™ System JUPSI via JUNIQ (Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing). Also, LLview, our in-house developed comprehensive interactive supercomputer monitoring software was showcased again, providing a live presentation of the operations of various supercomputers worldwide. Moreover, our partners from the Goethe-University Frankfurt demonstrated research and development in the area of hybrid algorithms for modular supercomputing and quantum computing.
As we contributed to the SC programme in many ways, a lot of running was involved between sessions, meetings and booth duties on the exhibition floor. We took on this challenge and had a lot of fun along the way.
Selected JSC highlights at this year’s SC

As the biannual top lists were published at the conference, we were very pleased to see that JEDI, the first development system of the 1st European exascale supercomputer JUPITER, ranked first among the 500 most energy-efficient supercomputers worldwide for the second time in a row on the Green500 list. It was all the more rewarding that our colleague, who deals with the JUPITER project intensively in his day-to-day work, had the chance to receive the certificate in person. What’s more, JETI, the second module of JUPITER, which had just been completed, entered the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers 18th place, setting a new benchmark right away. Since JETI also excels in energy efficiency, it additionally secured a 6th position on the Green500 list.
Another JSC highlight was the presentation of the “Application-Driven Exascale: The JUPITER Benchmark Suite” – more than 30 colleagues were involved in the creation of the associated paper. The Benchmark Suite was designed for and used in the procurement of JUPITER. In the paper, the scientists identify requirements and challenges and outline the project and software infrastructure setup. They provide descriptions and scalability studies of selected applications and a set of key takeaways. With the publication of their work, the JUPITER Benchmark Suite was released as open-source software and is now available for scientists across the globe. The community responded very positively to this remarkable work by our colleagues.
All in all, an extremely impressive SC24 with numerous exciting events and a successful appearance for us – at various conference activities as well as right at our booth.

We are already looking foward to SC25!
Details and times of our activities are still available on our SC24 landing page: JSC@Supercomputing Conference SC24.
Contact: Lisa Maiburg (JSC)