JUWELS is a
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 ...
developed by Atos
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 ...
, capable of 70.980 petaflops (the speed is for JUWELS Booster Module).
It replaced the now disused
JUQUEEN
JUQUEEN was a Blue Gene/Q system supercomputer built by IBM. Financed by the Helmholtz Association and the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in equal parts from federal funds and state funds from North Rhine-Westphalia, it was put into opera ...
supercomputer. JUWELS Booster Module is ranked as the eight fastest supercomputer in the world.
The JUWELS Booster Module is part of a modular system architecture and a second Xeon based JUWELS Module ranks separately as the 52nd fastest supercomputer in the world.
JUWELS Booster Module uses AMD EPYC processors with
Nvidia
Nvidia CorporationOfficially written as NVIDIA and stylized in its logo as VIDIA with the lowercase "n" the same height as the uppercase "VIDIA"; formerly stylized as VIDIA with a large italicized lowercase "n" on products from the mid 1990s to ...
A100 GPUs for acceleration.
University of Edinburgh
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contracted a deal to utilise JUWELS to pursue research in the fields of particle physics, astronomy, cosmology and nuclear physics.
In 2021, JUWELS Booster among eight other supercomputing systems participated in the
MLPerf HPC training benchmark, which is the benchmark developed by the consortium of artificial intelligence developers from academia, research labs, and industry aiming to unbiasedly evaluate the training and inference performance for hardware, software, and services used for AI.
JUWELS also ranked among the top 15 on the worldwide
Green500
The Green500 is a biannual
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list of energy-efficient supercomputers.
The Simulation and Data Laboratory (SimLab) for Climate Science at
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 ...
uses JUWELS to detect
gravity waves
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in the
atmosphere
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by running computing programs to continuously download and compute on the operational radiance measurements from the
NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
's data servers.
See also
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Computer science
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Computing
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Supercomputing in Europe
Several centers for supercomputing exist across Europe, and distributed access to them is coordinated by European initiatives to facilitate high-performance computing. One such initiative, the HPC Europa project, fits within the Distributed Eu ...
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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 ...
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Green500
The Green500 is a biannual
An anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded in a previous year, and may also refer to the commemoration or celebration of that event. The word was first used for Catholic f ...
References
External links
Forschungszentrum Jülich website
Supercomputing in Europe
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