05/02/2021 (Agence Europe) – The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC see EUROPE 12106/26) announced on Friday 5 February that a €20 million contract had been signed to finance a new European supercomputer. The EU will contribute €7 million to this. Called Deucalion, this supercomputer will be hosted in the Advanced Computing Centre in Minho, Portugal. It will be able to perform up to 10 million billion calculations per second and is expected to bring about advances in research and development in energy efficiency technologies, discoveries in medicines, and weather forecasting. Deucalion therefore joins the six EuroHPC supercomputers already in place in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Luxembourg, Slovenia and Finland. The intention is to add an eighth machine in Spain to this list, slightly later on (see EUROPE 12354/6) but within the year, said the European Commission in a statement. (AC)