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Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hendrik Wüst, emphasized that artificial intelligence is bringing about more profound changes than anything else in recent decades. North Rhine-Westphalia is leading the way in this regard. JUPITER marks a milestone for structural change in the Rhineland mining region and is accelerating the transition from coal to AI. The state is thus moving closer to its goal of becoming a European hotspot for artificial intelligence. He also pointed out that JUPITER is powered by green electricity and is currently the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world. North Rhine-Westphalia has recognized the opportunity for change and seized it with determination.

Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy also described JUPITER as a historic milestone. She emphasized that this supercomputer takes Europe to the highest level of high-performance computing and that JUPITER also underscores Germany's long-standing leadership in this field.

Fastest in Europe, 4th in the world, and most energy-efficient system worldwide

JUPITER currently ranks first in Europe and fourth worldwide on the Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers, ahead of all other European HPC/AI systems. At the same time, JUPITER is the most energy-efficient system in the top five of the list. Its smaller staging system, JEDI, tops the international Green500 list for energy efficiency for the third time in a row. More than 100 research projects in Germany and abroad are already benefiting from JUPITER's computing power, for example to predict extreme weather, develop new drugs, or research climate-friendly technologies.

ParTec’s leading role

Technologically, JUPITER is based on ParTec's patented dynamic Modular System Architecture (dMSA) and is powered by the JUPITER Management Stack (JMS), which includes many key components of our ParaStation Modulo software suite. Both the dMSA and the ParaStation Modulo software suite are important for the performance and flexibility of the supercomputer. The next module from ParTec will be a CPU module.