On Wednesday 6 September, the European Commission and the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), together with the Portuguese Prime Minister, Antonio Costa, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, inaugurated the Deucalion supercomputer.
Deucalion is hosted by the Minho Advanced Computing Centre, located on the Azurém campus in Guimarães, Portugal. According to the Commission, this supercomputer has a peak performance of 10 petaflops, or 10 million billion calculations per second.
Deucalion has received €7 million in European funding. With the additional funding, it represents an investment of around €20 million.
Deucalion is the seventh supercomputer from the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking to be installed in the European Union. It joins the supercomputers already in service: Discoverer in Bulgaria (see EUROPE 12817/31), MeluXina in Luxembourg, Vega in Slovenia, Karolina in the Czech Republic, LEONARDO in Italy (see EUROPE 13070/46) and LUMI in Finland (see EUROPE 12970/23).
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking was set up in 2018 (see EUROPE 12106/26) and modified in 2021 (see EUROPE 12729/2, EUROPE 12748/19) to enable the EU and the countries participating in EuroHPC to coordinate their efforts and pool their resources to develop, deploy and maintain a network of infrastructures and supercomputers in Europe. (Original version in French by Émilie Vanderhulst)