A consortium comprising of Germany’s Partec and France’s Atos has announced their collaboration to develop Europe’s inaugural supercomputer, JUPITER, capable of performing a quadrillion calculations per second.
The consortium has secured a £425 million contract with EuroHPC, a high-performance computing company representing a joint venture between the European Union, various European nations, and private firms, with a mission to advance supercomputing in Europe.
“JUPITER will boast a computational capacity three times that of the current leading European supercomputer and will occupy an area roughly equivalent to four tennis courts,” stated representatives from Partec and Atos.