R-CCS Cafe - Special Edition (Mar 14, 2023)

In 2018, the European Community decided to commission two exascale-class supercomputers by 2024 and 2025. These systems will follow the installation of three pre-exascale systems and five petascale systems, which is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2023. The Jülich Supercomuting Centre at Forschungszentrum Jülich, a member of the German Helmholtz Association of Research Centers has been designated by the Governing Board of EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC, as the host institution and operator of the system. In my talk, I will present the plans for the system, called JUPITER (Join Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research), address the technical criteria and application requirements, and explain the current status of the JUPITER project at JSC. In the second part I will describe JSC’s path to realize practical quantum computing. The strategy of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) for quantum computing is based on three pillars. The first pillar is based on the classification of quantum computers as “analog”or “digital” systems and their intermediate stages. The goal is to use QCS with a high enough technological maturity as pilot production systems. The second pillar of JSC’s strategy is the tightest possible integration of QCS into JSC’s HPC systems. For this purpose, JSC employs the concept of the modular supercomputer architecture (MSA). The QCS are used as modules in the MSA, closely coupled with other specific modules such as the general purpose CPU. The third pillar of JSC’s quantum computing strategy is the creation of a world-leading quantum computer user nfrastructure. These activities are carried out in the Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing (JUNIQ). By coordinating the EuroHPC JU project HPCQS, JSC s bringing the principle of JUNIQ to the European level, with JUNIQ forming a nucleus in an integrated and federated EuroQCS (European Quantum Computing and Simulation) infrastructure.