The procurement (reference CNECT/LUX/2020/OP/0040) includes the acquisition, delivery, installation and maintenance of a new petascale supercomputer co-owned by the EuroHPC JU and located in Sofia Tech Park, in Bulgaria.
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 12 055 000.
Four additional EuroHPC petascale supercomputers will be built in the following supercomputing centres:
- Luxprovide, Luxembourg
- Minho Advanced Computing Centre (MACC), Portugal,
- IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, Czech Republic
- IZUM, Slovenia.
These five European petascale supercomputers will soon be complement by three world-class precursors to exascale supercomputers.
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- The call to acquire a new world-class supercomputer in Slovenia (estimated total value: EUR 17 256 577.71) opened on 28 April and will close on 30 June 2020.
- The call for the procurement of the MACC petascale supercomputer (estimated total value: EUR 20 150 000) opened on 25 March and will close on 18 June 2020.
- The call to develop a European world-class supercomputer in the Czech Republic (estimated total value: EUR 14 855 000) opened on 14 April and will close on 12 June 2020.
- 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.
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 an integrated world-class supercomputing and data infrastructure in the European Union (EU) 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.