National supercomputer Deucalion inaugurated today

The fastest Portuguese supercomputer ever, Deucalion, will be installed at the University of Minho and accessible to the entire academic community, businesses, and public administration starting today, September 6.

With the capacity to perform 10 million billion calculations per second, Deucalion will significantly increase the country's high-performance computing capacity. It aims to accelerate the production of scientific excellence and innovation in Portugal in various fields, such as artificial intelligence, personalized medicine, drug and new material design, Earth and ocean observation, combating climate change and fires, creating smart cities, land use planning, mobility, and autonomous vehicles.

The inauguration will be attended by Prime Minister António Costa, Minister of Science, Technology, and Higher Education Elvira Fortunato, and FCT President Madalena Alves. The event will include speeches by the Rector of the University of Minho, Rui Vieira de Castro, the Deputy Director-General of DG-Connect, Thomas Skordas, the Executive Director of EuroHPC, Anders Dam Jensen, and the Deputy Director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Josep M. Martoreli.

This project by FCT and the European joint undertaking EuroHPC represents a joint investment of €20 million, 35% of which comes from EuroHPC's EU funds and the remaining 65% from the Recovery and Resilience Plan funds received by FCT as the direct beneficiary of Investment RE-C05-i08 "Ciência Mais Digital" (More Digital Science).