Top Of Mind #2 Survey Results

Sustainability is the societal goal of existing on this planet in a way that meets the needs of today without compromising the needs of future generations. Sustainability in terms of the HPC market can be described as meeting the needs of present users without compromising the needs of future users, with a focus on the extraordinary power requirements of HPC systems. Over the past few years, Hyperion Research has been tracking the growing influence the goal of sustainability has had on HPC procurement decision-making at various HPC sites around the world. HPC site managers/directors have had to consider the current global energy crisis and geopolitical climate alongside the HPC market, and begin planning and implementing ways to make HPC operations at their sites more sustainable.

This report, the latest in the Hyperion Research HPC Profiles in Leadership series, spotlights the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), located at Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), in Jülich, Germany. With origins dating back to 1956 as "Zentralinstitut für Angewandte Mathematik" (ZAM), FZJ has expanded well beyond its initial charter of nuclear energy and nuclear physics research to driving scientific research across a wide breadth of disciplines, including bioeconomy, alternative energy, neuroscience, and climate research. Operating as Germany's first national center for high-performance computing since 1987, it became JSC in 2007 with the goal of ensuring that scientists and researchers are able to conduct ground-breaking research and address society's most complex challenges.