The first EuroHPC supercomputer has been delivered

The supercomputer which was given the name ‘Vega’ is the first of 8 new extremely highperformance supercomputers jointly purchased by the member states and the EU under the framework of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. The supercomputer has been installed in Maribor, Slovenia, and was named after Slovenian mathematician Yuriy Vega. The equipment is based on a BullSequana XH2000 architecture and has been delivered by Atos; the purchase value itself is around EUR 17.2 million. As regards the funding scheme, EuroHPC added 34.2% to the Slovenian budget, which covered 65.8% of the costs.

Slovenian and European users (from the scientific community, industry, and public domain) may get access to and capitalise on these capacities in various fields of science starting from April 2021. Research projects using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-volume data analysis are considered high-priority areas.

The performance of the Slovenian supercomputer is 6.8 petaflops Rmax (10.1 petaflops Rpeak), which capacity would place it in the upper 10% of the TOP500 list currently in force. The CPU and GPU partitions of the machine consist of 960 and 60 nodes, respectively. The CPU and GPU partitions comprise 1920 AMD processors and 240 Nvidia A100 graphics cards, respectively. The computing capacities will be complete with a 1-PB computing data storage and an 18-petabyte long-term storage device. The operation of the infrastructure is supported by an ultrawide-band network connection.

The next EuroHPC supercomputer to which users may get access is expected to be MeluXina in Luxembourg in May 2021.