Five new generation supercomputers will be installed in Europe, one of which in Greece

Today, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (hereinafter referred to as the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking) announced five new hosting facilities for next-generation European supercomputers, following the completion of the selection process. Among them is the first European-scale supercomputer, the JUPITER, which will be housed at the Jülich supercomputer center in Germany.

Scalability (supercomputers capable of performing over one billion billion or 1018 calculations per second) is an important technological milestone for the EU and gives a major boost to European scientific excellence.

Scalability will benefit complementary technologies such as quantum computing, digital twins and mass data. It will be funded equally by Germany and the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. Four more installations have been selected to host computers that will have scaling or pre-scaling capabilities: the National Network of Technology and Research Infrastructures (EDYTE) in Greecethe government agency for the development of information technology in Hungary, the National University of Ireland (in Galway) and the Academic Computer Center in Poland.

These machines will contribute to the further development of new scientific and industrial applications in personalized medicine, the development of new drugs, the modeling of wind farm design and biomolecular research.

The Executive Vice President for a Europe Ready for the Digital Age Mr Margaret Westeyer stated about:

“These five new supercomputers will help us develop high-precision models to meet societal challenges and boost research in climate change, cosmology, engineering, materials science and other disciplines.”

The new hosting sites will be connected and available to serve a wide range of European users from the scientific community and industry, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises, and the public sector across the EU and participating countries. A special event took place a few days ago, at which the EuroHPC joint venture launched another supercomputer, LUMI, based in Kajaani, Finland. LUMI is the fastest and most energy efficient supercomputer in Europe, while also being the third fastest in the world. More information is available here and on the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking website.

George Fellidis