Maribor to become supercomputer center of Europe – How powerful is this EUR 840 million project?
The purpose of these computers is to help researchers, industry and business in a whole range of fields, from preparing medicines and new materials to fighting climate change, and they are installed as part of the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC). The project of managing supercomputer centers will involve 19 of the 28 countries, and the total budget for the project is EUR 840 million.
Vice-President for the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip, stated:
– These sites will give our researchers access to world-class supercomputers, a strategic resource for the future of European industry. They will be able to process their data inside the EU, not outside it. It is a major step forward for Europe to reach the next level of computing capacity; it will help us to advance in future-oriented technologies like the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, robotics and data analytics.
The aim is to equip the EU with world-class supercomputer infrastructure by the end of 2020. The next step in the project will be to procure 3 pre-exascale machines (capable of executing more than 150 Petaflop/s, that will be in the global top 5, and 5 petascale machines (capable of executing at least 4 Petaflop/s), the European Commission says in a press release.
The new supercomputers are supposed to boost Europe's competitiveness in the digital area.
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