At JUPITER’s inauguration ceremony in Jülich, attended by Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre and NVIDIA unveiled ways the supercomputer is already spurring innovation across the world.
We have all the technology in Europe. We know how to make the chips AND the chip factories etc. Just nobody wants to do it here, so we deliver the tech to elsewhere.
Guess the problem is that we might have chips and tech, but not on a level ndidia can currently deliver. AND in the needed quantity and time. Not to mention the best available speed. Which, for this project, is crucial. With 42k chips, only a slight disadvantage in speed adds up massively.
But dont get me wrong. Yeah sure we SHOULD. I can just understand why we can’t. Right now. Yet celebrating it as “european” is a bit…weird.
If EU want to become relevant in future industry then it’ll have to do decades of catching up, yes.
One way to kickstart it is to have military only procure EU produced chips. It’ll be redonkulously expensive, but it’s also a necessity for domestic security.
This announcement is like putting lipstick on a pig, instead.
To be fair: what else? Spend billions to become a European competitor to nvidia first and THEN build this "super"computer?
Not that this wouldn’t be way better, but it’s just not gonna happen soon.
Maybe NOT celebrate it in buy European?
Fair point
I just found the irony remarkable.
We have all the technology in Europe. We know how to make the chips AND the chip factories etc. Just nobody wants to do it here, so we deliver the tech to elsewhere.
Guess the problem is that we might have chips and tech, but not on a level ndidia can currently deliver. AND in the needed quantity and time. Not to mention the best available speed. Which, for this project, is crucial. With 42k chips, only a slight disadvantage in speed adds up massively.
But dont get me wrong. Yeah sure we SHOULD. I can just understand why we can’t. Right now. Yet celebrating it as “european” is a bit…weird.
If EU want to become relevant in future industry then it’ll have to do decades of catching up, yes.
One way to kickstart it is to have military only procure EU produced chips. It’ll be redonkulously expensive, but it’s also a necessity for domestic security.
This announcement is like putting lipstick on a pig, instead.
True true. Yet at least we have lipstick, yes?
Honestly, not sure if it does more good than bad 😟
Probably not 😐
And a pig!
I thought that was there already and we just painted it funny? 😁
You’re right, I got excited over the swine.