Europe has formally entered the worldwide league of high-performance computing with the inauguration of the JUPITER supercomputer at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.
Launched by EU Commissioner Zaharieva and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, JUPITER is the primary European system to cross the exascale threshold – able to performing over one quintillion (10¹⁸) operations per second.
This milestone equates to the mixed energy of 1 million trendy smartphones, cementing JUPITER’s place as Europe’s strongest supercomputer and the fourth quickest worldwide.
Henna Virkkunen, Govt Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Safety and Democracy, highlighted the importance of the achievement: “It is a historic milestone. With JUPITER, Europe turns into the house of the fourth strongest supercomputer on the planet.
“Simply because the planet Jupiter has a gravitational pull that shapes our photo voltaic system, the JUPITER supercomputer will pull Europe’s analysis group, its startups, its business, and its expertise collectively. It’s going to entice funding, stimulate breakthroughs, and push Europe ahead.”
JUPITER: Sustainability on the core
Not like conventional high-performance machines, the JUPITER supercomputer is constructed with sustainability as a high precedence.
Working completely on renewable power, the system employs superior cooling and power reuse applied sciences.
These improvements have made JUPITER the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputer module, a distinction mirrored in its high rating on the Green500 list.
Remodeling science and coverage
The exascale energy of JUPITER is ready to revolutionise European science and policymaking.
Researchers will be capable to run local weather and climate simulations at kilometre-scale decision, producing extra correct forecasts for excessive occasions comparable to floods, storms, and heatwaves.
Its capability additionally extends to breakthroughs in physics, medication, and supplies science, enabling discoveries that had been beforehand out of attain.
Driving Europe’s AI future
Past analysis, JUPITER will underpin Europe’s subsequent era of synthetic intelligence.
Its computing energy is central to the AI Manufacturing facility (JAIF), introduced in March 2025, which is able to prepare superior massive language fashions (LLMs) for generative AI.
These efforts align with the EU’s broader technique to ascertain AI gigafactories – large-scale, energy-efficient hubs devoted to growing frontier AI programs.
A €500m European funding
The €500m mission is a joint funding by the European Union and Germany by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking.
EuroHPC has already backed 13 proposals to create AI Factories throughout the continent, with demand surging – by June 2025, 76 expressions of curiosity had been submitted from 16 Member States.
These Gigafactories will combine computing energy, information, and expertise to place Europe as a frontrunner in AI innovation and deployment.
Ekaterina Zaharieva, Commissioner for Startups, Analysis and Innovation, added: “With Europe’s first exascale supercomputer, we’re opening a brand new chapter for science, AI and innovation.
“JUPITER strengthens Europe’s digital sovereignty, accelerates discovery, and ensures that essentially the most highly effective and sustainable computing sources can be found to our researchers, innovators, and industries.
Setting new supercomputing world requirements
With its mixture of uncooked efficiency, sustainability, and strategic integration into Europe’s AI infrastructure, the JUPITER supercomputer is greater than a technological achievement – it’s a image of Europe’s ambition to guide the world in each supercomputing and synthetic intelligence.
