Press releases

Today, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking celebrates one year of autonomy. On 23rd September 2020, the JU officially gained its autonomy from the European Commission, allowing it to run under its own steam and implement its own budget. 

Today the Council Regulation establishing the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking was published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

The EuroHPC JU petascale supercomputer MeluXina, located in Luxembourg, has been named by the Green500 as the greenest supercomputer in the European Union and the fourth greenest in the world. 

On 7 June 2021, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) world-class supercomputer MeluXina was officially inaugurated by His Royal Highness Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, in Bissen, Luxembourg. The event was also attended by the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Minister

Malta joins the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), a joint initiative between the EU, European countries, and private partners that pools resources to develop a world-class supercomputing ecosystem in Europe. 

Vega, the EuroHPC JU petascale supercomputer located in Slovenia, is now running its first industrial project.

Three years after its establishment, and eight months after gaining its autonomy, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking opens its new headquarters today in Luxembourg.

Thirteen projects have began work in April 2021 covering the three topics of the call ‘Towards Extreme Scale Technologies and Applications’, and using more than the 70% of the designated funding available under Europe 2020.

With the first EU supercomputer now operational in Slovenia, European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is officially ready to accept the first applications to access Vega’s HPC system computing power.