European Exascale Supercomputer JUPITER Sets New Energy Efficiency
Standards with #1 Ranking in GREEN500
Press Release
European
Exascale Supercomputer JUPITER Sets New Energy Efficiency Standards
with #1 Ranking in GREEN500
Paris, France
and Hamburg, Germany – May 13, 2024 – The first
module of the exascale supercomputer JUPITER, named JEDI, is ranked
first place in the Green500 list of the most energy-efficient
supercomputers worldwide, as announced today by Forschungszentrum
Jülich and EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, together with the
ParTec-Eviden supercomputer
consortium at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in
Hamburg. The JUPITER Exascale Development Instrument was installed
in April by the German–French consortium and has the same hardware
as the JUPITER booster module, which is currently being built at
Forschungszentrum Jülich.
The rapid pace of digitalisation and the
increasing use of artificial intelligence requires an increasing
amount of computing power and, in turn, energy. Data centres now
account for 4 % of German electricity consumption, and this
trend is increasing. As a result, efficient computing has become an
increasingly important issue in recent years. Research as well as
measures to increase energy efficiency have also been on the
rise.
The JUPITER supercomputer procured by the
European supercomputing initiative EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is a
true pioneer in this field. The first module installed in April,
the JUPITER Exascale Development Instrument (JEDI), is capable of
72 billion floating-point operations per second per watt. In
contrast, the previous leader achieved around 65 billion.
The decisive factor for the module’s outstanding
efficiency is its use of graphics processing units (GPUs) and the
fact that it is possible to optimise scientific applications for
calculations on GPUs. Today, virtually all leading systems on the
Green500 ranking rely heavily on GPUs, which are designed to
perform calculations with much greater energy efficiency than
conventional central processing units (CPUs).
The JEDI development system is one of the first
systems in the world to use the latest generation of accelerators
from NVIDIA: the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, which
combines the NVIDIA Hopper GPU and the NVIDIA Grace CPU on a single
module. Based on Eviden’s latest BullSequana XH3000 architecture,
the system includes its highly efficient hot water cooling system,
Direct Liquid Cooling, which requires significantly less energy
than conventional air cooling, and allows the heat generated to be
reused downstream.
The JUPITER precursor JEDI already has the same
equipment as the subsequent JUPITER booster module. Scientists are
able to access the hardware at an early stage of development as
part of the JUPITER Research and Early Access Program (JUREAP) in
order to optimise their codes. In doing so, they are supported by
experts from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre.
JUPITER
exascale supercomputer
JUPITER is set to be the first supercomputer in
Europe to surpass the threshold of one exaflop, which corresponds
to one quintillion (“1” followed by 18 zeros) floating-point
operations per second. The final system will be installed in stages
in the second half of this year and will initially be made
available to scientific users as part of the early access programme
before it goes into general user operation at the beginning of
2025.
JUPITER’s enormous computing power will help to
push the boundaries of scientific simulations and to train large AI
models. The modular exascale system uses the dynamic modular system
architecture (dMSA) developed by ParTec and the Jülich
Supercomputing Centre. The JUPITER booster module, which is
currently installed, will have around 125 BullSequana XH3000 racks
and around 24,000 NVIDIA GH200 Superchips, interconnected by NVIDIA
Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. For 8-bit calculations, which are
common for training AI models, the computing power is set to
increase to well over 70 exaflops. As of today, this would make
JUPITER the world’s fastest computer for AI.
According to estimates, JUPITER’s energy
requirements will average around 11 megawatts. Further measures
will help to use energy even more sustainably. The modular data
centre in which JUPITER will be housed is designed to extract the
heat generated during cooling and to then use it to heat the
buildings on the Forschungszentrum Jülich campus.
All hardware and software components of JUPITER
will be installed and managed by the unique JUPITER Management
Stack. This is a combination of ParaStation Modulo (ParTec), SMC
xScale (Eviden), and software components from JSC.
JUPITER
development system JEDI
The JUPITER development system JEDI is much
smaller than the final exascale computer. It consists of a single
rack from the latest BullSequana XH3000 series, which currently
contains 24 individual computers, known as compute nodes. These are
connected to each other via four NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand
switches and will be complemented with 24 additional computing
nodes over the course of May.
During measurements for the Green500 ranking of
the most energy-efficient supercomputers, the JEDI system achieved
a computing power of 4.5 quadrillion floating-point operations
per second, or 4.5 petaflops, with an average power consumption of
66 kilowatts. During optimised operation, the power
consumption was reduced to 52 kilowatts.
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About EuroHPC
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is a
legal and funding entity created in 2018 to enable the European
Union and EuroHPC participating countries to coordinate their
efforts and pool their resources with the objective of making
Europe a world leader in supercomputing. The mission of the EuroHPC
JU is:
- to develop, deploy, extend and
maintain in the EU a federated, secure hyperconnected
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- to support the development and
uptake of demand-oriented and user-driven innovative and
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technologies and knowledge;
- and, to widen the use of that
supercomputing and quantum computing infrastructure to a large
number of public and private users.
In order to equip Europe with a world-leading
supercomputing infrastructure, the EuroHPC JU has already
procured nine supercomputers, located across Europe, with more
coming soon.
No matter where in Europe they are located,
European scientists and users from the public sector and industry
can benefit from these EuroHPC supercomputers, which rank among the
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Jülich
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with more than 7,200 employees, we conduct research into the
possibilities of a digitized society, a climate-friendly energy
system, and a resource-efficient economy. We combine natural, life
and engineering sciences in the fields of information, energy, and
the bioeconomy with specialist expertise in high-performance
computing and we also use unique scientific infrastructure.
Jülich scientists focusing on the research
priority of information investigate how information is processed in
biological and technical systems. To this end, research at Jülich
combines three areas: simulation and data science using
high-performance computing (HPC), brain research, and research into
bioelectronics- and nanoelectronics-based information technologies
of the future.
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areas of the development, construction, and operation of these
advanced systems. The dynamic Modular System Architecture (dMSA)
approach is a unique and successful feature of ParTec AG, which has
proven particularly successful for the complex requirements of
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