On 25 June, the Council of the EU adopted a legislative proposal to develop a European supercomputer infrastructure. The joint undertaking known as EuroHPC is expected to commence at the beginning of 2019 at the latest.
High-performance computing is expected to facilitate the processing of a high number of data from supercomputers in record time. In 2012, the EU had 4 out of 10 of the highest performing machines in the world but now only has one of them.
The regulation introduces a legal,...