Jupiter, Europe's first exascale supercomputer, has been inaugurated in Germany to dramatically accelerate the continent's artificial intelligence (AI) drive and boost advanced research.
An "exascale" computer is capable of performing at least one quintillion (\(10^{18}\)), or a billion billion, calculations per second.
Developed through a €500 million investment by the European Union (EU) and the German government, Jupiter is housed at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre near Cologne. This launch positions Europe as a major contender in high-performance computing, previously dominated by the U.S. and China.
As of June 2025, Jupiter ranks as Europe's fastest supercomputer and the fourth fastest in the world.
The system is powered by nearly 24,000 NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips, which combine a high-performance GPU and CPU.
The top three fastest supercomputers in the world, as of the November 2024 TOP500 list, are El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora.
India's fastest supercomputer is the AI system AIRAWAT (Airawat PSAI) , which is capable of 200 AI Petaflops , world's 75th most powerful supercomputer.