New „AI Factory“ in Jülich
The EuroHPC JU (European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking) has announced that one of six new AI factories in Europe will be built at Forschungszentrum Jülich. The linchpin of the AI factory “JAIF - JUPITER Artificial Intelligence Factory” is JUPITER, the new exascale-class supercomputer, which will go into operation in the first half of the year.
Project meeting at the start of the third funding phase
Thirteen project partners in four work packages with a clear mission: to support the HPC community in NRW in the best possible way and thus advance NRW as a research location in the long term. At the start of the third project phase of HPC.NRW (2025 - 2028), the HPC.NRW members met at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf for a groundbreaking project meeting.
The Jülich Supercomputing Center strengthens HPC.NRW
With the start of the third funding phase of HPC.NRW, the Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) will become part of the competence network. In addition to the JUPITER supercomputer - the first European exascale computer - the JSC contributes special expertise in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) to the competence network and thus expands the range of services for HPC users in HPC.NRW.
New supercomputer amplitUDE
The new high-performance computer amplitUDE was inaugurated at the University of Duisburg-Essen. With enormous computing power and energy-efficient technology, it opens up new perspectives for big data applications in research.
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AI from Laptop to Supercomputer
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