ParTec and Eviden announced a contract with European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) to provide the very first Exascale supercomputer in Europe, to be operated by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) in Germany. The contract includes procurement, delivery, installation, hardware, software and maintenance of the JUPITER Exascale Supercomputer. The cost of the system and its operation for an expected six years amounts to 500 million euros.

JUPITER is scheduled to be installed on the campus of the Jülich Research Centre in 2024. By using the dynamic Modular System Architecture (dMSA), the central European technology to build modular supercomputer and quantum computer, as well as MSA-enabling ParaStation Modulo Software Suite from ParTec, the system achieves an outstanding level of computing power while decreasing the energy consumption. It will enable new breakthroughs in critical domains while fostering innovation for the entire European scientific community.

Using next generation GPUs and CPUs from NVIDIA and SiPearl, ParTec and Eviden will manufacture the first European system with at least 1 trillion computing operations per second, 1 exaFlop.