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The new top-class computer JUQUEEN at Jülich. Photo: Research Centre Jülich
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Europe's Queen of Computers
The high-performance computer JUQUEEN at the Forschungszentrum Jülich ranks fifth in the list of TOP 500 fastest supercomputers in the world, published in November. JUQUEEN is the first European supercomputer to achieve a processing power of more than 5 petaFLOPS; this corresponds to 5 trillion arithmetic operations per second or the performance of approximately 100,000 modern personal computers. In addition, due to direct water cooling, the new supercomputer is five times more energy efficient than its predecessor JUGENE.
JUQUEEN provides ideal conditions to run elaborate climate and atmosphere simulations, to compile complex models of the brain or galaxies and to research new materials and particles. Moreover, JUQUEEN holds the promise of new opportunities for the Human Brain Project, the main goal of which is to simulate the human brain.
