EuroHPC JU
The procurement (reference CNECT/LUX/2020/OP/0011) will include the acquisition, delivery, installation and maintenance of a EuroHPC petascale supercomputer located in the MACC in Portugal.
The objective is to foster better science and enhance innovation in Europe by providing access to leading edge HPC infrastructures and services to a wide range of users from the research and scientific community as well as the industry and the public sector. This new supercomputer will support the development of leading scientific, public sector and industrial applications in many domains, including personalised medicine, bio-engineering, weather forecasting, fight against climate change, discovering new materials and drugs.
The estimated total value for the call is EUR 20 150 000.
Four additional petascale supercomputers will be built in the following supercomputing centres:
- Sofiatech, Bulgaria
- IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, Czech Republic
- Luxprovide, Luxembourg
- IZUM, Slovenia.
These five European petascales supercomputers will soon be complement by three world-class precursors to exascale supercomputers.
More info
- The call for tender for the procurement of the petascale supercomputer to be located at Luxprovide in Luxembourg (estimated total value: EUR 30 405 000) opened on 30 January and closed on 26 February 2020.
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The way is open to building world-class supercomputers in Europe
Background
The EuroHPC JU was established by Council Regulation (EU) 2018/1488 and entered into force on 28 October 2018.
The mission of the EuroHPC JU is to develop, deploy, extend and maintain in the European Union (EU) an integrated world-class supercomputing and data infrastructure and to develop and support a highly competitive and innovative HPC ecosystem.
The EuroHPC JU aims at equipping the EU by 2020 with an infrastructure of petascale and precursors to exascale supercomputers, and developing the necessary technologies and applications for reaching full exascale capabilities around 2022 / 2023.
More information can be found on the EuroHPC JU’s website.