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Deucalion: Portugal's new world-class green supercomputer

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The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) has signed a contract for the acquisition of a new EuroHPC petascale supercomputer, called "Deucalion", with the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and Fujitsu, the company supplying the technology.

This high-performance computing (HPC) system will be installed at the Minho Advanced Computing Centre (MACC), one of the four operational advanced computing centers in Portugal coordinated by FCT. It is a petascale supercomputer, capable of running at a maximum performance of 10 Petaflops or 10 million billion calculations per second. This machine will use ARM technology, which is the Fujitsu A64FX CPU used by Fugaku, the fastest supercomputer in the world today.

Deucalion will enable the development of a unique and innovative context for applying European and global principles of green computing, taking advantage of a fully sustainable infrastructure. This new supercomputer is the result of a joint and collaborative effort co-financed by FCT, the Innovation Support Fund, the Energy Efficiency Fund, the European Structural Funds of the Northern Region of Portugal, the Municipality of Guimarães and EuroHPC JU, which will contribute 6.95 million euros. Representing a joint investment of more than 20 million euros over the next three years, this new supercomputer should be operational by the beginning of 2022.

Fujitsu was selected through a Call launched in March 2020. The technical specifications of the new system are described here.

The computing capacity of this new system will be complemented by four more EuroHPC petascale supercomputers to be installed in the following supercomputing centers:

  • LuxProvide, Luxembourg
  • IZUM, Slovenia
  • IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, Czech Republic
  • Sofiatech, Bulgaria

And also by three more EuroHPC pre-exascale supercomputers located in the following supercomputing centers:

 

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Published on February 5, 2021