KIFÜ to build its mid-range supercomputer, ‘Levente’

The winners of the latest EuroHPC calls were announced in the middle of June: 5 new locations across Europe will soon launch supercomputer investment projects. In addition to Greece, Ireland, Poland and Germany, Hungary is also among the winners with its supercomputer project called. Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany intends to build the first exascale supercomputer in Europe. This will be another milestone for Europe because this machine will be capable of carrying out more than a billion times a billion computations per second.

Another three locations will have petascale (so-called mid-range) supercomputer investment projects:

• DAEDALUS will be installed at GRNET in Greece,
• CASPIr will be hosted by the Irish NUI Galway,
• and EHPCPL will be built at the CYFRONET in Poland.

The Hungarian supercomputer ‘Levente’ is also on this list and will be an addition to KIFÜ’s HPC infrastructure. The modular architecture of the 20 -petaflops supercomputer will also enable connection to quantum computers in the future.

In the case of mid-range machines, the EuroHPC provides 35% of the budget, and the rest is covered via national funding. These supercomputers will be able to serve a wide range of European users irrespective of their location within Europe and of the field of research and background (academi, industry, public sphere) of the potential users. As regards the fields of application, it can be stated that these infrastructures assist in a wide range – from pharmaceutical research through drug design and to the fight against climate change, encouraging breakthroughs, increas innovation, and ultimately improvinge citizens’ quality of life.