The JUPITER Artificial Intelligence Factory (JAIF) is one of six new European AI factories being built at Forschungszentrum Jülich in North Rhine-Westphalia. The European supercomputing initiative EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) aims to establish a total of 13 such factories throughout Europe and to make artificial intelligence (AI) available for the economy and society in a targeted manner.
At the heart of JAIF is the JUPITER supercomputer, which is expected to be operational in the first half of 2025. Its processing power per second is comparable to that of a million smartphones. It will help start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises in Europe to develop high-performance, secure and privacy-compliant AI applications in the fields of healthcare, energy, climate change, education, media and finance.
Minister-President Hendrik Wüst: "North Rhine-Westphalia has taken another major step on the road from coal to AI. The establishment of an AI factory at Jülich is a huge success and a major milestone on this path. With the award of the EuroHPC (European High Performance Computing), Jülich is consistently continuing its development into a European center for supercomputing and AI. North Rhine-Westphalia has once again proven its worth: Our state brings the best prerequisites to take off in the AI age
With its research landscape and industrial expertise, NRW offers excellent conditions for taking on a pioneering role in international AI research. This is underlined by the cooperation with RWTH Aachen University, the Fraunhofer Institutes IAIS and FIT, the Lamarr Institute, WestAI, hessian.AI in Hesse and other European AI factories.