Eviden will build the modular data center for the Jupiter supercomputer. This will be the first exascale supercomputer to be located in Europe.
To build the modular data center, Eviden, part of Atos, contracted with Jülich Supercomputing Centre. This is a German research institute, as the first European exascale supercomputer will also be located in Germany.
Benefits in delivery time and upgrade capabilities
The modular data center will occupy an area of 2,300 m², in which 50 interchangeable modules will be brought together. Each module can thus be replaced or upgraded separately, should the need arise in the future. The same applies to the electricity subsystem and the logistics part.
In addition to making upgrading faster in the future, the delivery time of the end-to-end HPC solution will already be reduced by half. Financially, the data center is also interesting, as costs are reduced by a factor of three, Eviden said.
High energy consumption
The approach is also necessary to provide the necessary energy required by the exascale supercomputer. This explains Professor Thomas Lippert, director of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre: “Jupiter will possibly be the most powerful AI supercomputer in the world, and its modular computing architecture enables a very high level of energy efficiency. However, the enormous computing power places demands on energy supply, which no scientific data center in Germany has yet been able to meet.”
For all of Europe
Although the supercomputer will be located in Germany, companies from all EU member states should have access to Jupiter’s huge computing power. To this end, the EU already set up a program to let AI start-ups complying with European legislation around AI access to the available supercomputers.
The desire to help European AI start-ups provide the necessary computing power to train AI models was confirmed today with the arrival of the AI innovation package. “You need computing power to develop AI. A lot of it. So we want to give SMEs and start-ups privileged access to the network of European supercomputers. We are committed to innovation of AI and innovation with AI. And we will do our best to build a thriving AI ecosystem in Europe”, says Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age.
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