[1] Financed by the Helmholtz Association and the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) in equal parts from federal funds and state funds from North Rhine-Westphalia,[2] it was put into operation in 2012 at the Forschungszentrum Jülich as the successor to the JUGENE supercomputer.
JUQUEEN was the fastest computer in Europe[3][2] and ranked 5th on the TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers.
[4] It was also one of the most energy-efficient systems in the world for its time and ranked 5th on the Green500 list.
[2] It consisted of 458,752 processor cores[4] and had a maximum computing power of 5.9 petaflops.
[5] JUQEEN was shut down in May 2018 after six years of operation and replaced by the successor JUWELS.