JUQUEEN was a

Blue Gene/Q Blue Gene is an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) range, with low power consumption. The project created three generations of supercomputers, Blue Gene/L, Blue Gene/P, ...

system

supercomputer A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...

built by IBM. Financed by the

Helmholtz Association The Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (german: Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren) is the largest scientific organisation in Germany. It is a union of 18 scientific-technical and biological-medical research centers. ...

and the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in equal parts from federal funds and state funds from

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

, it was put into operation in 2012 at the

Forschungszentrum Jülich Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ here for short) is a national research institution that pursues interdisciplinary research in the fields of energy, information, and bioeconomy. It operates research infrastructures with a focus on supercomputers. C ...

as the successor to the

JUGENE JUGENE (''Jülich Blue Gene'') was a supercomputer built by IBM for Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. It was based on the Blue Gene#Blue Gene/P, Blue Gene/P and succeeded the Jülich Research Centre#JUBL, JUBL based on an earlier design. It ...

supercomputer. JUQUEEN was the fastest computer in Europe and ranked 5th on the

TOP500 The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computing, distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these ...

list of the most powerful supercomputers. It was also one of the most energy-efficient systems in the world for its time and ranked 5th on the

Green500 The Green500 is a biannual ranking of supercomputers, from the TOP500 list of supercomputers, in terms of energy efficiency. The list measures performance per watt using the TOP500 measure of high performance LINPACK benchmarks at double-precisi ...

list. It consisted of 458,752 processor cores and had a maximum computing power of 5.9 petaflops. JUQUEEN was used for several research projects, including the

Human Brain Project The Human Brain Project (HBP) is a large ten-year scientific research project, based on exascale supercomputers, that aims to build a collaborative ICT-based scientific research infrastructure to allow researchers across Europe to advance knowl ...

. JUQEEN was shut down in May 2018 after six years of operation and replaced by the successor JUWELS.

External links

Official website
(archived)

References

{{Reflist IBM supercomputers Supercomputing in Europe