Poland, Greece, Ireland, Germany and Hungary are five countries selected by the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking within Large Scale Computing (EuroHPC JU), to install new supercomputers to create the European data processing infrastructure.
Among these locations, the German Supercomputing Center Jülich will launch JUPITER – the first European computer with a computing power above 1 Exaflops (10 18 floating-point operations per second), which when fully installed will become the fastest European machine.
In Poland, at the end of 2023, a mid-range scale system will be created, with power several times larger than the currently fastest supercomputer in Poland (Athena). The operator of the new supercomputer will be the Academic Computer Center CYFRONET AGH in Krakow, and access for Polish scientists will be provided as part of the PLGrid infrastructure.
Like the existing EuroHPC supercomputers, the new systems will be accessible to a wide range of European users from the research community, industry and the public sector.
The aim of EuroHPC JU is to equip Europe with one of the world’s leading supercomputing infrastructures.
To achieve the goal, measures were taken to launch petascale, pre-exascale and ultimately completely exascale systems.
The mid-range supercomputer planned for Poland will become part of the national PLGrid infrastructure, similar to the currently fastest Polish supercomputer Athena which is installed at the AGH UST CYFRONET and achieves the theoretical computing power of 7.7 PetaFlops.
Adrian Andrzejewski