The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is a joint initiative of the EU, European countries and private partners that aims to develop the world's largest high-performance supercomputing ecosystem in Europe.
The EuroHPC JU has been a legal entity with funding capacity since 2018. It is located in Luxembourg. It enables the EU and the 32 participating countries to coordinate their efforts and pool resources with the objective of deploying exascale supercomputers in Europe capable of performing in excess of one trillion (1018) operations per second and developing innovative technologies and applications. The EuroHPC JU aims to provide computing solutions to enhance cooperation in advanced scientific research, drive industrial competitiveness and ensure Europe's technological and digital autonomy.
By 2021, the pan-European infrastructure will have three pre-exascale supercomputers (1017 operations/s) located in Spain (at the National Supercomputing Centre in Barcelona [BSC-CNS]), Italy and Finland, and five petascale supercomputers (1015 operations/s) to be located in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Portugal and the Czech Republic. The European scientific and industrial community can access the resources offered by participating in competitive tenders launched by the EuroHPC JU.