The first European supercomputer comes to Jülich
Created: 06/15/2022Updated: 06/15/2022 12:42 p.m
A supercomputer in the research center Jülich.
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The Jülich research center becomes the location of the first European computer that can perform more than a trillion arithmetic operations per second.
The research center announced on Wednesday that the computing power would exceed five million modern notebooks or PCs.
Jülich - The so-called exascale computer called "Jupiter" should help to solve scientific questions about climate change and sustainable energy production.
Cost point: half a billion euros.
Of this, 250 million come from the European supercomputing initiative EuroHPC JU and a further 250 million from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
NRW Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) said that the computer coming to Jülich was "an award for science and excellence overall in our state".
dpa