20 Apr 2021 | News
Slovenia takes delivery of first EU-funded supercomputer
The Vega supercomputer is the first petascale system to be procured through the EuroHPC Joint undertaking
Slovenia has taken delivery of the EU’s first supercomputer to be funded through the European High Performance Computing joint undertaking (EuroHPC).
The Vega supercomputer, to be housed at the Maribor Institute of Information Science, is the first petascale system procured jointly with EU funds. To mark the completion of the €17.2 million investment, the European Commission and the Slovenian government organised a ceremony in Maribor.
The supercomputer, named after Slovenian mathematician Jurij Vega, can run at up to 6.9 petaflops. It will support applications in fields including machine learning, artificial intelligence and high performance data analytics. Installation was completed in March, with the equipment going through testing ahead of its full launch today.
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