This supercomputer represents a joint investment shared between France, the Netherlands, and the EU of around €540 million. The EU will contribute 50% of the total costs from the DIGITAL Europe Programme.
Thanks to its massive computing capacity, it will help solve societal challenges in several areas, such as energy (e.g. support fusion energy development), health (e.g. fast analysis of genomic data for virus mutations, rapid disease detection), and management of climate change (e.g. providing high-resolution weather forecast models). It will also advance our capabilities in quantum computing simulation.
It will be accessible to European researchers and industry as of 2025. It will be designed with the most ambitious energy efficiency criteria advancing sustainable supercomputing for a greener future.
This is the second European exascale supercomputer, after JUPITER located in Germany. It is set to surpass the threshold of one billion calculations per second, a computing power level comparable to aggregating the computing capabilities of the mobile phones of the EU’s entire population. It will join the EuroHPC JU’s existing pre-exascale supercomputers: MareNostrum5 in Spain, Deucalion in Portugal, Discoverer in Bulgaria, MeluXina in Luxembourg, Vega in Slovenia, Karolina in Czechia, LEONARDO in Italy, and LUMI in Finland, with more to come. LUMI and Leonardo are among the top 5 fastest supercomputers worldwide, the others being located in Japan and in the United States.
Yesterday, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, together with the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU, also announced that Linköping University in Sweden was selected as the hosting entity for Arrhenius, a new mid-range supercomputer capable of pre-exascale performances that will be operational by 2025.
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