European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is a legal and funding entity, created in 2018 and located in Luxembourg. 

The EuroHPC JU allows the European Union and the EuroHPC JU participating countries to coordinate their efforts and pool their resources to make Europe a world leader in supercomputing. This will boost Europe's scientific excellence and industrial strength, support the digital transformation of its economy while ensuring its technological sovereignty. 

More precisely, the EuroHPC JU aims to:

• develop, deploy, extend, and maintain a world-leading supercomputing and data infrastructure in Europe. The objective is to reach exascale capabilities by 2022/2024. Exascale supercomputers are capable of more than a billion billion operations per second (when compared to ten billion operations per second of an ordinary laptop device). Another objective is to build 'hybrid' machines that blend the best of quantum and classical HPC technologies with the first state-of-the-art pilot quantum computers by 2025.
• support the development and uptake of innovative and competitive supercomputing technologies and applications based on a supply chain that will reduce Europe's dependency on foreign computing technology. A specific focus will be given to greener and energy-efficient HPC technologies. Synergies with broader technology sectors and markets, such as autonomous vehicles, extreme-scale, big data, and applications based on edge computing or artificial intelligence will be encouraged. 
• widen the use of HPC infrastructures to a large number of public and private users wherever they are located in Europe and support the development of key HPC skills, education and training for European science and industry. One of the objective is to create a network of national HPC Competence Centres to ease access to European HPC opportunities in different industrial sectors and deliver tailored solutions. Another iconic objective will be to set up the first European Master of Science programme for HPC to develop HPC talents in Europe.

Please find below the short description of the projects supported by the EuroHPC JU to which the University of Pisa is participating: