Must invest USD 1.5 billion to realize the plan.
Supercomputers have long been a field dominated by the United States and China, and Europe has actually hinged a good deal. Now the EU is apparently tired of this, recently they published a press release announcing a massive, fresh venture on the field.
The EU Commission proposes to users $ 1 billion, about $ 9.6 billion, for the construction of world-class supercomputers. The purpose is to achieve greater independence in the area.
Relying on exaflops performance within a few years
"Today, European researchers and industry process their data outside the EU because their needs are not met by the performance available in the EU. This lack of independence threatens privacy, data protection, commercial trade secrets and ownership of data, it's stated in the press release.
Chinese Sunway TaihuLight is on a solid first place among the world's supercomputers, with a performance of 93 petaflops. The EU must make a machine that is ten times more powerful if it is to meet its ambitions. Photo: National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi
The EU's plans are both ambitious and concrete. The organization aims to achieve so-called exaflops performance by 2022-2023. Exaflops performance means at least one trillion floating point operations per second, which is the same as one billion billion.
No supercomputers are yet near this performance. The most powerful supercomputer today, Chinese Sunway TaihuLight, has a performance of 93 petaflops. Thus, it is required a twist of this performance to get into exaflops performance.
Must make car production far more efficient
According to the EU, the supercomputers are being utilized in a wide range of areas, including industry, artificial intelligence, technological development and research. As an example, the European Commission points out that car production cycles can be reduced from 60 to 24 months using the technology.
Indeed, Europe already has a supercomputer claiming at the top level in the form of the Swiss machine Piz Daint, which is in third place in the world with a performance of 19 pet fleets. Switzerland, however, is ironically outside the EU, and the EU has no machines on the top 10 list, as they themselves see in the press release.
By the way, the United States also plans an exaflops machine, so it's exciting to see who wins the race.
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IT is coming