Forschungszentrum Jülich

Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)

Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), a member of the Helmholtz Association, is one of the largest research centers in Europe. It pursues cutting-edge interdisciplinary research addressing the challenges facing society in the fields of health, energy and the environment, and information technologies. Within the Forschungszentrum, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) is one of the three national supercomputing centers in Germany as part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) and operates some of the highest performance computing systems in Europe.

What is your organization’s role in the project? What unique contribution does it bring to the team?

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) is part of FZJ and currently hosts JUWELS, Europe’s fourth-fastest supercomputer (Top500 list of November 2022), which includes almost 4,000 Nvidia GPUs that are optimally suited for large AI method development. Moreover, JUPITER, Europe’s first Exascale computer, is currently under development and is scheduled to be installed at the JSC in 2024. JSC employs software engineers and AI experts bringing the expertise to leverage the computational power to large-scale trainings, benchmarks and tunings performed in WP2. FZJ will contribute in developing and optimizing AI-compressors through self-supervised learning models on HPC systems with efficient and portable workflows in WP2 and WP3. The remote sensing experts at FZJ, while themselves AI experts, bring in domain expertise and lead the use case Crop Stress and Yield Early Detection.

Why is this project important for your organization?

The Embed2Scale project offers a distinctive opportunity to tackle computationally demanding applications pertinent to remote sensing and Earth observation fields. This aligns seamlessly with the primary mission of JSC, which is to optimize and scale applications for present and forthcoming HPC systems. Such adaptation ensures a more efficient transition to the upcoming European exascale supercomputers, notably the JUPITER system at JSC.

Who are the key people involved?

Gabriele Cavallaro

Rocco Sedona

Stefan Kesselheim

Adriko Kennedy

Maurogiovanni Stefano