Portugal will have a new world-class green supercomputer to help with scientific research, which represents a joint investment of 20 million euros over the next three years and is expected to be operational in early 2022.
The acquisition contract for a new petascale EuroHPC supercomputer was signed between the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and Fujitsu, the technology provider.
This HPC system, which will be installed in Portugal, called “Deucalion”, is a petascale supercomputer, capable of executing the maximum performance of 10 Petaflops or 10 million billion calculations per second. The machine will use ARM technology, which is the Fujitsu A64FX CPU, used by Fugaku, the currently fastest supercomputer in the world.
Deucalion will be installed at FCT’s Minho Advanced Computing Center (MACC), one of the four operational centers for advanced computing in Portugal coordinated by the FCT. Deucalion will allow the development of a unique and innovative context to apply European and global principles of green computing, taking advantage of a fully sustainable infrastructure, co-financed by national funds allocated to the area of Science and European structural funds allocated to the North region and the Support Fund to Innovation and the Energy Efficiency Fund (the latter under the supervision of the Minister for the Environment and Climate Action).
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