Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with ‘JUPITER’

The new JUPITER supercomputer, inaugurated by Commissioner Zaharieva and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany, has officially become the first European system to achieve the exascale threshold – that is, performing more than one quintillion (10¹⁸) operations per second, a computing power level comparable to aggregating the computing capabilities of one million modern smartphones. With this milestone, Europe enters the global league of high‑performance computing.

Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, Henna Virkkunen, said: “This is a historic milestone. With JUPITER, Europe becomes the home of the most powerful computer in Europe, and the fourth most powerful in the world. Just as the planet Jupiter has a gravitational pull that shapes our solar system, the JUPITER supercomputer will pull Europe’s research community, its start-ups, its industry, and its talent together. It will attract investment, stimulate breakthrough, pushing Europe forward.”

Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, Ekaterina Zaharieva, said: “With Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, we are opening a new chapter for science, AI and innovation. JUPITER strengthens Europe’s digital sovereignty, accelerates discovery, and ensures that the most powerful and sustainable computing resources are available to our researchers, innovators, and industries.”

Source: European Commission