Gauss AI Compute Competition opened
When Europe’s most powerful supercomputer JUPITER starts operating in May 2025, Germany’s best generative AI model will be determined in a competition. Last Friday, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) opened the “Gauss AI Compute Competition,” which is conducted by the Gauss Center for Supercomputing (GCS) together with the Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC). In addition to promoting the best generative AI models from Germany using the computing capacities of the Gauss Center for Supercomputing, the aim of the competition is, above all, to expedite the development of generative AI models in order to sustainably establish Germany as a technology and business location. The GCS is funded by the federal government and the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg, and Bavaria,
From May 1 to October 31, 2025, up to 15 million GPU hours (NVIDIA GH200) will be made available on the future JUPITER high-performance computer in Jülich. Project proposals can be submitted from January 17 to March 15, 2025, 5:00 p.m. CET.
Find more detailed information on the following website: https://www.bmbf.de/SharedDocs/Kurzmeldeen/DE/2025/01/gauss-ai-vergleich.html. The competition conditions and access to the GCS submission portal are also linked there.
The GCS website (https://www.gauss-centre.eu/news/gcs-calls-for-gauss-ai-compute-competition) and the Jülich Supercomputing Center website (https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/ias/jsc/aktuelles/meldungen/kurznachrichten/gauss-ai-compute-competition) also provide summarized information.