Forschungszentrum Jülich
Interdisciplinary research centre in Germany
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| 2024 | Jülich Supercomputing Centre will host JUPITER, the first European exascale supercomputer, capable of performing over one quintillion calculations per second as part of the EuroHPC JU initiative. |
| 2022 | Forschungszentrum Jülich reported an annual budget of approximately €948 million, with 48% from institutional funding and 52% from external sources including international and national project funding, research services, and project management. |
| 2021 | Astrid Lambrecht joins the Board of Directors |
| 2021 | Frauke Melchior joins the Board of Directors |
| January 2021 | Completion of JURECA-DC module installation, increasing the system's peak performance to 23.5 petaflop/s. |
| 2020 | JUWELS supercomputer was expanded with a GPU-based booster module, increasing its theoretical peak performance to 85 petaflop/s. |
| 2020 | Forschungszentrum Jülich trained over 300 people in 23 different professions, continuing their long-standing commitment to professional training and education. |
| 2020 | Forschungszentrum Jülich had 6,796 total employees, including 2,700 scientists, 850 doctoral researchers, 867 administrative staff, 1,380 Project Management Jülich employees, and 500 technical employees. The center also hosted 672 visiting scientists from 62 countries. |
| November 2020 | JUWELS became the most powerful supercomputer in Europe and ranked 7th most powerful globally on the TOP500 list when its booster module debuted. |
| September 2020 | Beginning of the JURECA cluster module replacement process with the new JURECA-DC module designed for processing large data volumes. |
| 2019 | The Ernst Ruska-Centre 2.0 for ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy and the German contribution to ACTRIS-D were added to Germany's National Roadmap by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). |
| 2018 | JUWELS supercomputer (Jülich Wizard for European Leadership Science) was first put into operation at Forschungszentrum Jülich. |
| 2017 | JURECA was expanded with a GPU-based booster module, becoming the world's first supercomputer with a modular architecture in productive operation. |
| 2015 | JURECA supercomputer replaced JUROPA, introducing a new computational infrastructure at Forschungszentrum Jülich. |
| July 1 2014 | Wolfgang Marquardt assumes the role of chair of the Board of Directors at Forschungszentrum Jülich |
| 2011 | Karsten Beneke becomes vice-chair of the Board of Directors |
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