NUI Galway is one of five sites selected by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking to host Europe's next generation supercomputers.

The other four high-performance machines will be in Germany, Greece, Poland and Hungary. They will power further development of novel scientific and industrial applications in personalised medicine, development of new drugs, wind farm design modelling, and biomolecular research. 

Supercomputer, JUPITER

The selection includes the first European exascale supercomputer, JUPITER, which will be hosted in the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany. Exascale capability (supercomputers capable of more than a billion billion calculations per second) represents a major technological milestone for the EU, and greatly promotes European scientific excellence.

Four more sites have been selected to host supercomputers, which will have petascale or pre-exascale capabilities: the National Infrastructures for Research and Technology in Greece, the Governmental Agency for IT Development in Hungary, the National University of Ireland (Galway), and the Academic Computer Centre in Poland. These machines will power further development of novel scientific and industrial applications in personalised medicine, development of new drugs, wind farm design modelling, and biomolecular research. 

Executive Vice-President for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age Margrethe Vestager said: “These five new supercomputers will support us in the development of high-precision models. This will help us tackle societal challenges and facilitate advance research in the fields of climate change, cosmology, engineering, materials science and more.” 

The new sites will be connected and available to serve a wide range of European users in the scientific community, as well as industry in particular small and medium businesses, and the public sector across the EU and participating countries.