With the JUPITER AI Factory, a central pillar of the European AI infrastructure is being created in Jülich. As the first supercomputer of the Exascale era in Europe, JUPITER will surpass the mark of one quintillion computing operations per second, making it one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers for AI. The AI Factory around JUPITER is designed to drive the training of next-generation AI models and will particularly support German and European start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises in developing high-performance, secure, and privacy-compliant AI applications.
Thanks to the computing power of JUPITER, which will go into operation at Forschungszentrum Jülich’s Supercomputing Center in the coming months, AI applications can be developed, tested, improved and scaled faster than ever before. The AI Factory in Jülich serves as a one-stop shop for research and industry and offers in-depth support in the use of JUPITER. The focus is on strategically important fields of application: healthcare, energy, climate change, education, media, public sector and finance.
In addition to access options for JUPITER, the AI Factory offers a comprehensive AI ecosystem that provides individual support for all AI use cases – from user training and personal consulting to services relating to data curation, next-generation foundation models, and AI application optimization.
Strong Partners for AI
The JUPITER AI Factory, JAIF for short, is being funded with around 55 million euros by the European supercomputing initiative EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Ministries of Science of North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse.
In addition to the coordinating Jülich Supercomputing Centre, the Center for Artificial Intelligence at RWTH Aachen University, the Fraunhofer Institutes for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS and for Applied Information Technology FIT as well as the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence are involved as main partners. Moreover, the JUPITER AI Factory works closely with the German AI service centers WestAI and hessian.AISC as well as the German AI Association as associated partners, and cooperates scientifically with the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
More on the topic: Fraunhofer IAIS Press Release