28/05/2018 (Agence Europe – On Monday 28 May, Poland became the sixteenth country to join the EuroHPC state cooperation aimed at setting up a computing infrastructure capable of carrying out calculations 100 times quicker than at present (exascale supercomputing), by 2022-2023. The European Commission contributes up to €500 million to deployment of this infrastructure which will cost nearly €1 billion (see EUROPE 11937). 14 member states have already signed up to the cooperation (Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovenia), plus Switzerland. (MB)