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Europe plans to build the world’s fastest supercomputer in 2024

Europe will get its first exascale supercomputer next year, called JUPITER, and it should allow simulations that are currently possible only on a few machines worldwide

By Matthew Sparkes

28 December 2023

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany where the exascale supercomputer JUPITER will be hosted

The exascale supercomputer JUPITER will be hosted at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany

Forschungszentrum Jülich/Sascha Kreklau

The first exascale computer in Europe, called JUPITER, should be completed next year, and it may even become the most powerful computer in the world. It will allow experiments and simulations currently only possible on a tiny number of machines in the US and China.

Exascale machines can carry out a billion billion operations per second, an exaflop. Currently, there are – officially – only two supercomputers in the world capable of those sorts of calculations: the Frontier…

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