Nvidia said that its Grace Hopper GH200 superchip featuring its own Arm-based CPU and Hopper-based GPU for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) powers Jupiter, Europe's first ExaFLOPS supercomputer hosted at the Forschungszentrum Jülich facility in Germany. The machine can be used for both simulations and AI workloads, which sets it apart from the vast majority of supercomputer installed today. In addition, Nvidia said that its GH200 powers 40 supercomputers worldwide and their combine performance is around 200 'AI' ExaFLOPS.
The Jupiter supercomputer is powered by nearly 24,000 GH200 chips with 2.3 TB of HBM3E memory in total interconnected using Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking and cooled down using Eviden's BullSequana XH3000 liquid-cooling technology. The machine offers 1 ExaFLOPS of FP64 performance for simulations, including climate and weather modeling, material science, drug discovery, industrial engineering, and quantum computing. In addition, the machine can provide a whopping 90 ExaFLOPS of AI performance for training of large language models and similar workloads. All of this will be powered by Nvidia's software solutions like Earth-2, BioNeMo, Clara, cuQuantum, Modulus, and Omniverse.
