Information & the Brain

Scientists in the research area of information investigate how information is processed in biological and technical systems. The focus here is on brain research, basic research for future information technologies, and supercomputing.

Highlights & News

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Europe’s Exascale Supercomputer in Its Starting Blocks

EuroHPC JU and a French-German supercomputer consortium comprising of Eviden and ParcTec have signed a contract for the construction of JUPITER. JUPITER will be the first exascale supercomputer in Europe and hosted at Forschungszentrum Jülich in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia. The system, designed for largest possible simulations and AI applications in science and industry alike, is expected to launch in 2024.

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Press release

The European Quantum Computer Project OpenSuperQ Is Extended

OpenSuperQPlus – part of the European Quantum Technology Flagship – unites 28 European research partners from 10 countries aiming to develop a 1,000 qubit quantum computer. The project is continuing and enhancing the project OpenSuperQ and brings together most of its team with new partners – including the key partners of several national initiatives, full-stack quantum computing startups and many other key players in the field.

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Institutes

Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons (ER-C)
Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS)
Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI)
Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine (INM)
Institute of Biological Information Processing (IBI)
Nuclear Physics Institute (IKP)
Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS)

Further information

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Helmholtz Joint Lab

Supercomputing and Modeling for the Human Brain

The Joint Lab (JL) Supercomputing and Modeling for the Human Brain (SMHB) addresses key issues regarding the analysis, simulation and visualization of extremely large and complex data sets derived from the human brain, and thus will contribute to solving the scientific, societal and technical challenges of the digitization

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Helmholtz Incubator

Helmholtz AI

Helmholtz AI is a research cooperation platform in the field of applied artificial intelligence (AI). The platform has been set up to advance and apply AI across the whole Helmholtz Association in order to establish its international leadership position in the field.

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Notification

A turbo for artificial intelligence (AI)

Computers consume large amounts of energy, as data storage and processing take place in separate components. As an alternative, researchers from Jülich now want to develop economical chips modelled on nature. The technology offers many opportunities, especially for AI applications.

Last Modified: 07.11.2023