Europe’s second high-end exascale supercomputer will be hosted by the Très Grand Centre de Calcul of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Bruyères-le-Châtel (France) and operated by the ‘Jules Verne’ consortium.
This supercomputer represents a joint investment between France, the Netherlands and the EU of around €540 million. The EU will contribute 50% of the total costs from the DIGITAL Europe Programme.
Thanks to its massive computing capacity, it will help solve societal challenges in several areas, such as energy (e.g. support fusion energy development), health (e.g. fast analysis of genomic data for virus mutations, rapid disease detection) and management of climate change (e.g. providing high-resolution weather forecast models). It will also advance capabilities in Quantum Computing simulation.
It will be accessible to European researchers and industry as of 2025 and designed with the most ambitious energy efficiency criteria advancing sustainable supercomputing for a greener future.
This is the second European exascale supercomputer after JUPITER located in Germany. It is set to surpass the threshold of 1 billion calculations per second, a computing power level comparable to aggregating the computing capabilities of the mobile phones of the EU’s entire population.
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