Netherlands to build new national supercomputer The Netherlands has laid out plans for its next national supercomputer, to be known as Snellius Share this item with your network: By Published: 06 May 2021 12:30 SURF, the Dutch cooperative association in which educational and research institutions join forces, is to get its most powerful supercomputer yet. The supercomputer, known as Snellius, will be built by Lenovo and will give even more calculating power to scientific research in the Netherlands. With a peak performance of 14 petaflops/s, it will be the most powerful high-performance computing system in the country. On 1 February, Lenovo and SURF signed an agreement for the construction of the supercomputer, based on server technology from AMD and Nvidia. The system will be delivered in three phases, with the first phase to be operational by July. Phase two will follow by mid-2022 and the final phase a year later.