“The United States and China are in a neck-and-neck race to compete for future market share in an AI-supported global economy,” he stated at the inauguration of the Jupiter computer, which will be able to perform at least one quintillion (or one billion billion) calculations per second.
“We in Germany, and we in Europe, have every opportunity to catch up and then keep pace.”
Jupiter, based in Juelich, western Germany, is houtilized in a centre about half the size of a football pitch and is packed with about 24,000 Nvidia chips, which are favoured by the AI industest.
With the power of about one million smartphones, experts declare it is the first supercomputer that can be considered internationally competitive in training AI models in Europe.
“In Germany and in Europe as a whole, we required sovereign computing capacities that are on a par with our international competitors,” Merz stated.
“This is a question of competitiveness as well as the security of our countest.”
Researchers across numerous different fields will be able to access the 500-million-euro ($580-million) supercomputer, whose utilizes go far beyond AI.
They range from creating more detailed climate forecasts that can assist predict extreme weather events to medical research and studies related to the energy transition.
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