Next Milestone for JUPITER – High-Tech Base for the European Exascale Supercomputer
Construction of the first European exascale supercomputer JUPITER at Forschungszentrum Jülich is making progress. Forschungszentrum Jülich and Eviden (Atos Group) have signed a contract for the delivery of a modular data centre, marking the next milestone in the installation of the supercomputer. The modular data centre is being financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Furthermore, BMBF and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MKW NRW) will provide funding in equal measure for the technical equipment installed in the centre. (Source: Forschungszentrum Jülich – Press Releases)
JUPITER is setting new standards in terms of housing and is to be delivered in a modular data centre consisting of container modules. The concept is becoming increasingly prevalent in the field of high-performance computing as an innovative alternative to traditional ‘brick and mortar’ datacentres, as it offers considerable advantages such as significantly shorter planning and construction times, reduced construction and operating costs, and greater flexibility.
The supercomputer procured by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is due to go into operation this year and will be the first supercomputer in Europe capable of performing more than one quintillion (or one billion times one billion) floating point operations per second. JUPITER is designed for simulations as well as large-scale AI applications in science and industry that require maximum computing power.
The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) is taking a completely new approach in order to build a correspondingly powerful new data centre by the time JUPITER is scheduled to go into operation in autumn 2024. The data centre will be built as a modular high-performance centre (modular data centre, MDC) consisting of around 50 container modules across an area of over 2,300 square metres – roughly half the size of a football pitch.
The advantages of the concept include significantly shorter planning and set-up times as well as reduced construction and operating costs. According to Eviden, the delivery time has been reduced by 50 % to less than a year and the costs have also been significantly reduced. In addition, there is greater flexibility when the requirements for the data centre change with new computer generations. Moreover, the power supply and cooling infrastructure can be flexibly adapted to new requirements in future thanks to the consistently modular design. Due to the reduced use of materials and better recycling options, data centres made of steel containers also offer major advantages in terms of sustainability.
FZJ/T. Schlößer, 23.01.2024
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Next Milestone for JUPITER – High-Tech Base for the European Exascale Supercomputer
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Contact:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert
Head of Jülich Supercomputing Centre and Director at the Institute for Advanced Simulation
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Phone: +49 2461/61-6402
E-Mail: th.lippert@fz-juelich.de
Contact for this press release:
Tobias Schlößer
Press Officer
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Phone: +49 2461 61-4771
E-Mail: t.schloesser@fz-juelich.de
