Europe, Seeking HPC and AI Autonomy, Launches €240M DARE Project

A €240 million project has been launched to promote HPC and AI autonomy in Europe. The Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe, Special Agreement 1 (DARE SGA1) project marks “a significant milestone in Europe’s ….

Axelera AI Wins EuroHPC Grant of up to €61.6M for AI Chiplet Development

AI hardware maker Axelera AI has unveiled Titania, which the company described as a high-performance, low-power and scalable AI inference chiplet. Part of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s effort to develop a ….

EuroHPC JU Acquires €8.5M Qilimanjaro Quantum Annealer to be at Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Feb. 1, 2025 — The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a procurement contract with Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech for MareNostrum-Ona, a quantum annealer to be hosted at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in Spain. The system, co-funded with a total acquisition cost of €8.5 million ($8.8 million USD), will initially offer at least 10 physical qubits, with […]

EPICURE Offers Support for EU HPC End Users

Aug. 5, 2024 — The EPICURE project is a European-led initiative that seeks to provide support services (Level 2 and Level 3) to  EuroHPC supercomputers’ users with the intent to build a knowledge-sharing platform for continuous training, allowing users to easily move from one high-performance computing system to another. Until now, the support provided to HPC […]

EuroHPC JU FFplus Project: Open Call for Business Experiments and Innovation Studies Using HPC and AI

Stuttgart, Germany – July 8, 2024 – The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s FFplus project, established earlier this year to provide SMEs resources to test new applications of HPC and AI, has invited proposals from companies interested in conducting business experiments and innovation studies to take their products, services, and operations to the next level. This includes […]

GENCI to be Site of 2nd EuroHPC Exascale HPC System

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has signed a hosting agreement with the French national research organization GENCI for its next exascale supercomputer, called Alice Recoque, which will be operated by CEA, a French research agency. The system will be ….

EuroHPC JU Energy Efficiency Project REGALE Comes to End

Munich, 26 March 2024 – This March marks the end of REGALE, a European project, funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which has carried out research into the development of new software for high performance computing (HPC) centres with a focus on energy efficiency. After three years of research, the project now provides a toolchain that […]

EuroHPC JU Issues Procurement Call for LUMI-Quantum

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched a call for tender for the installation of LUMI-Q, a new EuroHPC quantum computer to be located in Czechia and integrated into the EuroHPC supercomputer KAROLINA. EuroHPC JU said LUMI-Q will be a digital quantum computer….

EuroHPC JU Issues Quantum Hosting Call

Dec. 19, 2023 — The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched a call for expression of interest to select hosting entities which will host and operate new EuroHPC quantum computers.  Applications must be submitted by 31/03/2024 at 17:00 CET. More details and all supporting documents are available on this dedicated webpage. The […]

LUMI Wins Green Data Centre Award

London — March 8 — The LUMI data center has been recognized in the 2023 Data Centre World Awards for the Green Data Centre of the Year. The award was presented at the Data Centre World event in London on 8 March 2023. LUMI is an HPE-Cray EX supercomputer powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and […]