26/01/2018 (Agence Europe) – On Friday 26 January, the Czech Republic became the 13th member state to join the EuroHPC state cooperation aimed at creating a computing infrastructure by 2022-2023 able to compute 100 times more rapidly than at present (exascale computers). The European Commission contributes up to €500 million for deployment of this infrastructure which will cost nearly €1 billion (see EUROPE 11937). Twelve member states are already a part of the cooperation (Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia), as well as Switzerland. (MB)