SiPearl, the company behind the EU-funded Europrocessor, has been chosen to supply the JUPITER exascale supercomputer owned by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. The JUPITER supercomputer will be built by a consortium consisting of Eviden (part of the Atos Group) and ParTec (a German modular supercomputing company) and will be installed at the Forschungszentrum Jülich campus in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The project is expected to cost €273 million. SiPearl's first generation microprocessor, Rhea1, will be used in the JUPITER general-purpose Cluster Module. Rhea1 is based on the Arm Neoverse V1 platform and will enable JUPITER to run simulations and AI applications to address strategic, scientific, industrial, and environmental challenges. Rhea1 is set to be released in 2024.