Barcelona launches bid to host Europe’s most powerful supercomputer
BSC-CNS seeks EU funding to build model competing with those in China, the US, and Japan
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) has announced its candidacy to host one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers by 2021, which would be partially funded by the European Commission.
The EU will allocate €250 million to fund at least two of the chosen projects. The opening is part of a larger bid to build some of the world’s supercomputers and try catch up China, the United States and Japan.
The new supercomputers are expected to have a minimum capacity of 200 petaFLOPS (floating point operations per second).
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