On Tuesday 3 October, the European Commission announced the signing of the contract for the acquisition of JUPITER, the first exascale supercomputer, by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking or EuroHPC JU (see EUROPE B13036A34) and a consortium comprising Eviden and ParTec.
JUPITER should become Europe’s first high-performance computing system capable of performing an exaflop, i.e. one billion billion calculations per second. This should enable high-precision...