JUWELS (Jülich Wizard for European Leadership Science) is a

supercomputer A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instruc ...

developed by

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and hosted by the

Jülich Supercomputing Centre Jülich (; in old spellings also known as ''Guelich'' or ''Gülich'', , , Ripuarian: ''Jöllesch'') is a town in the district of Düren, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany. As a border region between the competin ...

(JSC) of the

Forschungszentrum Jülich Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ; “Jülich Research Centre”) is a German national research institution that pursues interdisciplinary research in the fields of energy, information, and bioeconomy. It operates a broad range of research infrast ...

Supercomputer

It is capable of a theoretical peak of 70.980 petaflops (the speed is for JUWELS Booster Module) and it serves as the replacement of the now out-of-operation

JUQUEEN JUQUEEN was a Blue Gene/Q system supercomputer built by IBM. Financed by the Helmholtz Association and the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in equal parts from federal funds and state funds from North Rhine-Westphalia, it was put into opera ...

supercomputer. JUWELS Booster Module was ranked as the seventh fastest supercomputer in the world at its debut on the November 2020

TOP500 The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computing, distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these ...

list. The JUWELS Booster Module is part of a modular system architecture and a second

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based JUWELS Cluster Module ranked separately as the 44th fastest supercomputer in the world on the November 2020 TOP500 list. JUWELS Booster Module uses

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processors with

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A100 GPUs for acceleration.

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contracted a deal to utilise JUWELS to pursue research in the fields of particle physics, astronomy, cosmology and nuclear physics. In 2021, JUWELS Booster was among eight other supercomputing systems which participated in the

MLPerf A neural processing unit (NPU), also known as AI accelerator or deep learning processor, is a class of specialized hardware accelerator or computer system designed to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning applications, inc ...

HPC training benchmark, which is the benchmark developed by the consortium of artificial intelligence developers from academia, research labs, and industry aiming to unbiasedly evaluate the training and inference performance for hardware, software, and services used for AI. JUWELS also ranked among the top 15 on the worldwide

Green500 The Green500 is a biannual ranking of supercomputers, from the TOP500 list of supercomputers, in terms of energy efficiency. The list measures performance per watt using the TOP500 measure of high performance LINPACK benchmarks at double-preci ...

list of energy-efficient supercomputers. The Simulation and Data Laboratory (SimLab) for Climate Science at

uses JUWELS to detect

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in the

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by running computing programs to continuously download and compute on the operational radiance measurements from the

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's data servers.

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External links

Forschungszentrum Jülich website
Supercomputing in Europe Jülich Research Centre

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