On Tuesday 20 June, the European Commission announced that Europe’s second exascale supercomputer, Jules Verne, would be hosted by the Très Grand Centre de Calcul of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Bruyères-le-Châtel, France.
This is Europe’s second supercomputer with very high computing power; the first European exascale computer, JUPITER, is hosted in Germany.
Jules Vernes will benefit from a joint investment shared by France, the Netherlands and the EU of around 540 million euros. The European Union will contribute 50% of the total costs through the DIGITAL Europe programme.
This supercomputer should be available to researchers and people involved in research and innovation from 2025.
On Monday 19 June, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, in collaboration with the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU, announced that Linköping University in Sweden had been selected to host the Arrhenius mid-range supercomputer, which will be capable of pre-exascale performance. This new instrument should be operational by 2025. (Original version in French by Émilie Vanderhulst)