First European exascale computers, Germany, France

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Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Infrastructure, Germany, France
Fig. 1 - S1 (23.06.2023), S2 (11.06.2023) - Jülich Research Centre is located in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany.
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It will be home to JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer (1 billion billion floating-point operations per second), in 2023. The average power is anticipated to be up to 15 MW. JUPITER has been designed as a “green” supercomputer and will be powered by green electricity despite NRW carbon-based energy mix (72% coal, 88% fossil).
Fig. 2 - S1 (09.09.2022), S2 (13.08.2022) - France has been chosen to host "Jules Verne", Europe's second exascale supercomputer.
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It will be housed at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) to the south of Paris. It is a joint investment by France, the Netherlands and the EU, 50% of which will be funded by the European joint venture EuroHPC.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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