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Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter

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Re: Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter

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Post by pona-a »

zkmon wrote: post #4

"With JUPITER, Europe becomes the home of the most powerful computer in Europe" -- Henna Virkkunen What does that mean?

Maybe they wanted to say “with [JUPITER, Europe],” as in “CERN, Switzerland.” This would still be unnecessary and confusing, but that’s the most sense I can make of it.

Re: Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter

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Post by dotnet00 »

bayindirh wrote: post #3
convolvatron wrote: post #2

something with a little more technical detail: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/jupiter/tech looks like its just a big Nvidia installation. IB, Ceph, K8s, H100s

If that’s “so simple”, why we don’t see everyone “just” doing the same?

To be fair, being "just" a big Nvidia installation doesn't really mean that it's "so simple" (person you're replying to didn't claim it was simple), considering that every "Nvidia installation" has a slightly different set of factors like node count, per node memory, CPU choice, and networking configuration. All it says is, like many (most?) other modern supercomputers, it's a giant NVIDIA GPU cluster.

Re: Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter

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Post by poisonborz »

convolvatron wrote: post #2

something with a little more technical detail: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/jupiter/tech looks like its just a big Nvidia installation. IB, Ceph, K8s, H100s

Don't know why your're downvoted, this is valid criticism. EU just bought 500 mil worth of hardware from the US, no specific European innovation, apart from system management (ParTec Italy). But would be happy to be proven otherwise.

Re: Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter

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Post by bprew »

zkmon wrote: post #4

"With JUPITER, Europe becomes the home of the most powerful computer in Europe" -- Henna Virkkunen What does that mean?

I took it to mean that the controller of the most powerful computer in Europe is Europe, as opposed to Apple or Google or another private entity.

Re: Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter

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Post by frodo8sam »

poisonborz wrote: post #16
convolvatron wrote: post #2

something with a little more technical detail: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/jupiter/tech looks like its just a big Nvidia installation. IB, Ceph, K8s, H100s

Don't know why your're downvoted, this is valid criticism. EU just bought 500 mil worth of hardware from the US, no specific European innovation, apart from system management (ParTec Italy). But would be happy to be proven otherwise.

Who exactly were you going to buy equipment from? AMD/Nvidia/Intel are the only players in town.

Re: Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter

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Post by mrtksn »

poisonborz wrote: post #16
convolvatron wrote: post #2

something with a little more technical detail: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/ias/jsc/jupiter/tech looks like its just a big Nvidia installation. IB, Ceph, K8s, H100s

Don't know why your're downvoted, this is valid criticism. EU just bought 500 mil worth of hardware from the US, no specific European innovation, apart from system management (ParTec Italy). But would be happy to be proven otherwise.

It was probably more like system designed in Europe, made in China, assembled in Europe thing.

Sure, the HQ of the core component(Nvidia) is incorporated in US but that too is a multinational effort.

Re: Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter

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Post by wvbdmp »

zkmon wrote: post #4

"With JUPITER, Europe becomes the home of the most powerful computer in Europe" -- Henna Virkkunen What does that mean?

I think it’s pretty clear if you read the rest of the sentence, which you’ve omitted: “and the fourth most powerful in the world”. If she hadn’t said “in Europe”, the whole top 3 might be in Europe as well.
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