28.3.2024

EPIQ: A Quantum Supercomputer Made in NRW
The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Siegen-based start-up eleQtron are together building a globally unique modular supercomputer consisting of a quantum module and a classical digital module. The project is called EPIQ and is based on a development partnership for a trapped-ion quantum computer in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). eleQtron is developing a trapped-ion quantum computer whose qubits perform calculations using a revolutionary microwave control system invented at the University of Siegen

24.3.2024

Expansion of Jülich’s Quantum Computer Infrastructure
The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) has acquired a 5-qubit quantum system from the German–Finnish manufacturer IQM Quantum Computers. The IQM Spark quantum computer is scheduled to go into operation in July 2024 as part of Jülich’s JUNIQ quantum computing infrastructure and will be connected to JSC’s classical supercomputers

11.3.2024

TrustLLM Project Started
The EU project TrustLLM was officially launched on 20-21 November. In the next three years, the project will create a new generation of large language models with improved accessibility, reliability, and mitigated negative effects such as hallucinations and bias. The consortium has a focus on northern Europe. For example, AI Sweden, located in Stockholm, is a project partner that has created the LLM GPT-SWE, the strongest model in the Swedish language to date

12.1.2024

New Findings Regarding the High Efficiency of Perovskite Solar Cells
Free charge carriers in perovskite solar cells likely have a special form of protection from recombination, researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich have discovered by means of innovative photoluminescence measurements.

23.9.2023

Jülich expertise for new agri-photovoltaic plant in the Rhenish mining area
RWE started construction of the agrivoltaics (Agri-PV) plant for generating solar power while simultaneously using the land for agricultural and horticultural purposes on about seven hectares of recultivated land at the edge of the Garzweiler opencast lignite mine

7.8.2023

Up, up, and away with PHILEAS
The extreme precipitation that occurs during the Asiatic monsoon season repeatedly causes catastrophic devastation in Southeast Asia. The same weather systems which cause these extreme events also affect the altitude region of 12 to 20 kilometers. Strong convection transports partly heavily polluted air masses from the ground-level atmosphere in Southeast Asia into this altitude region, the so-called upper troposphere/lower stratosphere, and from the northern Pacific subsequently to Europe

The AI revolution
is largely taking place behind closed doors. This is something Jülich researchers want to change. Together with their partners in the LAION association, they have created the largest free text-image database for the training of open-source AI models.

Coal in the Rhenish region is not only an important fuel for power generation. It is also used by the chemical industry to produce important basic chemicals

Physicist at HI ERN receives prestigious award and 2 million euros in funding to develop recycling concepts for solar modules - Across Europe, more than 2,200 researchers had applied in the current round of ERC calls.

For seven years, an international research team has collected radio signals from space. The data have now been published as a new sky map, which provides a unique picture of the wonders of our universe. For the first time, 4.4 million galaxies were made visible in the radio wave range