video Europe's first exascale supercomputer has finally lived up to expectations, despite not being fully complete, as its general-purpose compute cluster is not set to be ready before next year at the earliest.

The long-awaited Jupiter system was officially inaugurated on Friday at the Jülich Supercomputing Center near Köln (Cologne) in Germany, and has surpassed the exascale threshold of one quintillion (10¹⁸) operations per second, according to the European Commission.

Friday's inauguration was effectively that of Jupiter's Booster module, a GPU cluster intended for handling large-scale simulations and AI training. It comprises roughly 6000 compute nodes, each featuring four of Nvidia's GH200 Grace Hopper superchips, and interconnected using the GPU-flinger's Quantum-2 InfiniBand netw

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