Forschungszentrum Jülich

Built World

Led the study, with University of Cologne and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

For years, engineers at the transmission operator TenneT watched the frequency of the European grid dip, briefly, every 60 seconds. The drops were too small to threaten supply. They were regular enough to be strange.

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New Capabilities

Operating JUPITER supercomputer for brain simulation

Scientists at Germany's Jülich Research Centre demonstrated in mid-January 2026 that Europe's most powerful supercomputer can simulate 20 billion spiking neurons—matching the scale of the human cerebral cortex. The team plans to combine this capability with anatomical brain data to run full-cortex simulations, a technical milestone that has eluded researchers since the field's founding in the 1980s.

Updated May 22