Europe's fastest supercomputer, Germany's Jupiter – which is also now the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world – is being inaugurated on Friday at the Jülich research centre.

“Traditional” supercomputers are typically used for complex simulations, such as forecasting extreme weather or nuclear explosions. But Jupiter also boasts a large component set that's intended for training AI models, meaning it plays in the same performance league as many of Big Tech’s top AI hubs.

Jupiter is set to be the most powerful of the EU’s so-called AI factories: compute hubs equipped with specialised AI hardware which the Commission wants to provide European companies with access to specialised computing resources that they need to grow the EU's AI ecosystem.

“Jupiter strengthens Europe’s digital

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