The MareNostrum5 (MN5) supercomputer will be inaugurated on Thursday 21 December. It is partly funded by the European budget programme, as part of the European Joint Undertaking EuroHPC. The system will be housed in an innovative new facility at the Centro Nacional de Supercomputación in Barcelona, Spain.
MN5 is expected to deliver a peak performance of 314 Pflops, or 314 million billion calculations per second, and more than 200 petabytes of storage and 400 petabytes of active archives.
It was designed in particular to strengthen European medical research.
This new system represents a total investment of over €151 million. This budget includes the acquisition and maintenance of the system. Half of this envelope comes from the European budget and the other half from a consortium led by Spain.
This is the 8th European supercomputer acquired by EuroHPC. These systems are made available to the scientific community and to users, particularly in industry, through calls for projects.
According to the European Commission, it will also be the greenest supercomputer in Europe and the 6th greenest supercomputer in the world.
The European Joint Undertaking has also announced plans for its first exaflop system: JUPITER in Germany (see EUROPE 13263/18). It is expected to incorporate an initial European processor. The processor is expected to be designed, developed and tested in Europe as part of the European Processor Initiative (EPI) (see EUROPE 13229/11), and will probably be produced in Taiwan.
Six other quantum systems are planned by the European Joint Undertaking. The sites that will host them have already been selected (see EUROPE 13036/34). This includes a second exaflop computer, Jules Verne, which will be hosted in France (see EUROPE 13263/18). EuroHPC aims to be the first exaflop system designed in Europe. (Original version in French by Émilie Vanderhulst)