| Author (Corporate) | Council of the European Union |
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| Series Title | Official Journal of the European Union |
| Series Details | L 252, 08.10.18 |
| Publication Date | 08/10/2018 |
| Content Type | Legislation |
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Summary: On 11 January 2018 the European Commission presented a proposal for a Council Regulation establishing a European High Performance Computing (HPC) Joint Undertaking. The Council of the European Union adopted the Regulation on 28 September 2018. Further information: A new legal and funding structure – the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking – shall acquire, build and deploy across Europe a world-class high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. It also aims to support a research and innovation programme to develop the technologies and machines (hardware) as well as the applications (software) that would run on these supercomputers. The EU's contribution to EuroHPC was set at around €486 million under the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework, matched by a similar amount from Member States and associated countries. Overall, around €1 billion of public funding will be invested by 2020, and private members of the initiative will also add 'in kind' contributions. Background: The term 'High Performance Computing' refers to the technologies and the use of powerful supercomputers (interconnecting in a single system or in close proximity of hundreds of thousands or millions of computing units working in parallel) to perform massive and fast computations that are so demanding that they cannot be performed using general-purpose computers. At the Digital Day in Rome (organised on 23 March 2017 as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Treaty of Rome), seven Member States – France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain – signed the EuroHPC declaration. They were subsequently joined by Belgium, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Greece and Croatia. Other Member States and associated countries were invited to sign the declaration. The countries signing the EuroHPC declaration recognised that there is an urgent need for them and for the Union to invest together in order to: acquire and offer to Europe's scientific and industrial users a leading-edge HPC infrastructure matching their demanding application requirements; and develop in Europe a world-class exascale HPC infrastructure by 2022-2023. In summer and autumn 2017, the Commission carried out an impact assessment to identify the best instrument for achieving these goals, while promising the best economic, societal, and environmental impacts and safeguarding the Union’s interests. A Joint Undertaking was found to represent the best option. |
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| Source Link | https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2018.252.01.0001.01.ENG |
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| Subject Categories | Business and Industry, Culture, Education and Research |
| Countries / Regions | Europe |
