24/11/2022 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 24 November, the European Commission inaugurated a new supercomputer in Bologna in collaboration with the High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) (see EUROPE 13036/34). Called Leonardo, this supercomputing system provides computing power of 250 petaflops, or the equivalent of 250 million billion calculations per second. This supercomputer was funded by the European Commission to the tune of €60 million. The same amount was jointly invested by the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research and the ‘CINECA’ consortium, which is made up of Austria, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia. The Leonardo system – the second European supercomputer to come into operation after the Kajani supercomputer in Finland – will be used for cancer research, discovery of medicines and understanding the human brain. (TM)