Deucalion: Portugal's new world-class green supercomputer

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

This high-performance computing (HPC) system will be installed at the Minho Advanced Computing Center (MACC), one of four advanced computing operational centers in Portugal coordinated by FCT. It is a petascale supercomputer capable of delivering a peak performance of 10 petaflops, or 10 million billion calculations per second. This machine will use ARM technology, namely the Fujitsu A64FX CPU, used by Fugaku, currently the world's fastest supercomputer.

Deucalion will enable the development of a unique and innovative context for applying European and global green computing principles, leveraging 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. Representing a joint investment of more than €20 million over the next three years, this new supercomputer is expected to be operational in early 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 additional 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 for three more EuroHPC pre-exascale supercomputers located in the following supercomputing centers:

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Published on February 5, 2021