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Briefing
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- Euro High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking – €1 billion ($1.2 billion) legal and funding structure by European Commission and E.U. member states aimed at acquiring, building, and deploying world-class supercomputers from 2019 to 2026
- Exascale Computers Goal – Acquire pre-exascale systems, capable of one hundred quadrillion operations per second, and develop exascale (quintillion calculations per second) computers by 2022-23
- Funding Sources – E.U. to contribute €486 million ($595 million), matched by similar amount from member countries, with private members adding in-kind contributions
- Economic Benefits – Include job creation, industry digitization, and increased European economy’s competitiveness
- Participating EU Members – Involves France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Greece, and Croatia
- Different Applications – Include health, natural disaster prevention and management, SME-led product innovation, and national security and defense, among others
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