14 | ETP4HPC | ANNUAL REPORT 2020
Looking back on EuroHPC’s achievements in 2020 Pascale Bernier-Bruna, ETP4HPC Office
As the EuroHPC JU is entering a new phase, let’s look back on its
projects were selected, and calls were launched for three ad-
tremendous achievements in the past year, despite the though
vanced pilot systems and for the continuation of the European
context. EuroHPC now pulls together the resources of the EU and
Processor Initiative.
of 32 countries, including some non-EU member states, and includes also two private members, ETP4HPC and BDVA. Getting agreement between so many countries makes the European approach very challenging, but this is what the EU is all about: ensuring that all participating countries get more out of it than they would have if they were acting alone. In 2020, the focus was on infrastructure, on procuring eight supercomputers, with the objective to have all eight operational by the end of 2021. The year also saw the launch of the first 3
PROCURING EIGHT EUROHPC SUPERCOMPUTERS In 2020, the priority was to procure, jointly with the eight hosts and consortia selected in 2019, five petascale systems and three pre-exascale machines. The first EuroHPC JU procurement contract was signed in September 2020 for Luxembourg’s MeluXina, and many others have followed. The selected systems will introduce a diverse technology base across the EU, with a variety of architectures excelling on different types of workloads.
EuroHPC-funded projects; the first 19 Research and Innovation
EuroHPC pre-exascale supercomputers
EuroHPC petascale supercomputers:
1. LUMI, a 375 petaflops (sustained) system from HPE
1. M eluXina, a 10 petaflops (sustained) system
is under construction at CSC’s datacentre in Kajani
from Atos, is under construction at LuxProvide
(Finland). The LUMI Consortium gathers Finland,
in Luxembourg. It will be the first national
Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
supercomputer in Luxembourg.
Iceland, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and Switzerland. 2. Leonardo, a 250 petaflops (sustained) machine from Atos, will be located in the new datacentre of CINECA in Bologna (Italy). The hosting
2. V EGA, a 6.8 petaflops (sustained) machine from Atos, is under construction at the Institute of Information Science in Maribor (IZUM) in Slovenia. 3. K arolina, a 9.13 petaflops (sustained) system
consortium also includes Slovenia, Slovakia,
from HPE, is being installed at the IT4Innovations
Austria, Hungary, and Greece.
National Supercomputing Centre in Ostrava
3. MareNostrum5 will be hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (Spain).
(Czech Republic). 4. P etaSC, a 4.44 petaflops (sustained) machine from Atos, will be installed at the Sofia Tech Park (Bulgaria). 5. D eucalion, a 7.7 PFlops (sustained) system from Fujitsu and Atos, will be hosted by the Minho Advanced Computing Centre (MACC) in Portugal.
