Portuguese supercomputer Deucalion ranks among the TOP500 most efficient supercomputers in the world

The Deucalion supercomputer, installed in Guimarães and inaugurated in September last year, appears for the first time on the TOP500 list of the world's most efficient supercomputers, marking the debut of this Portuguese infrastructure in the ranking – it ranks 81st in energy efficiency in the Arm partition and 219th in processing speed.

 The news comes in the June 2024 edition of TOP500 (already released), which ranks the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers since 1993. This list was announced at ISC 2024, which took place in Hamburg, Germany.

Deucalion is part of the European supercomputer network of the EuroHPC joint undertaking, accessible to research and innovation communities. It is a joint project of the FCT, developed through the FCCN and the European EuroHPC partnership, funded by the PRR's RE-C05-i08 "Ciência Mais Digital" (More Digital Science) investment. This supercomputer is capable of achieving a high-performance Linpack (HPL) performance of 3.9 petaflops.

Located at the University of Minho, Deucalion also appears in the Green500 ranking, a list that ranks supercomputers according to their energy consumption. Thanks to its low carbon footprint, the Portuguese supercomputer ranks 80th on this list.