A big day for European supercomputing: the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking gets underway

The first meeting of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking takes place today in Luxembourg, paving the way for future developments in European supercomputing.

 

Today the Governing Board of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (Euro HPC JU) meets for the first time, in the presence of Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society. The Governing Board brings together representatives of the European Commission and the 25 participating European countries, who have undertaken to pool EU and national resources in order to develop top-of-the-range exascale supercomputers in Europe.

Commissioner Gabriel said:

Initially proposed by the Commission in January this year, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking becomes a reality a mere ten months later. In record time, the EU and its Member States have joined forces and put in place a powerful mechanism to allow Europe to regain leadership and become one of the top three supercomputing powers in the world. Supercomputing is a powerful driver in the new global digital economy, a key technology at the heart of many scientific discoveries and industrial innovations that can answer fundamental scientific questions, help our industry innovate and improve our daily lives by bringing tangible benefits to the citizens.

The meeting is an opportunity to agree on the Joint Undertaking’s rules of functioning and on its targets and implementation agenda for 2019, including the investments in infrastructure and research and innovation activities that will help develop a supercomputing ecosystem in the EU. In early 2019, the first investment decisions will be taken about procuring petascale (capable of a million billion or 1015 calculations per second) and pre-exascale (capable of a hundred million billion or 1017calculations per second) supercomputers. These machines will be procured in the next two years and located in Member States that are participating in the Joint Undertaking.

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