Can the Jupiter supercomputer help Europe win the AI race?
Europe's first "exascale" supercomputer was inaugurated on Friday, September 5, in Jülich, not far from Cologne. This is excellent news for the Old Continent, which wants to show that it "plays in the big leagues" in the field of artificial intelligence, notes the German press.
“1,000,000,000,000,000,000. One 1 and 18 zeros (...). That’s the number of operations the new supercomputer inaugurated today can perform. Per second.” Installed in Jülich, west of Cologne, the machine described by the German newspaper Der Spiegel East Europe's first exascale supercomputer, built by the French group Atos. Dubbed "Jupiter" and funded equally by Germany and the European Union (EU), it is described as the fastest computer on the Old Continent and the fourth most powerful in the world.
“Jupiter’s incredible energy efficiency will mark a turning point in the history of technology. But that’s only secondary,” analyzes the business media Handelsblatt . For the government of conservative ChancellorFriedrich Merz , it is above all a “symbol of European sovereignty and the engine of a new innovation ecosystem .” The supercomputer “is intended to prove that Germany is playing in the big leagues when it comes to future technologies.”
T-Online is of the same mind . “This machine will propel Germany’s notoriously lagging digital sector into another dimension. Seeing this computer here, where fiber optics was previously considered cutting-edge, would be almost a miracle.” The site
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