21 Oct 2021
New European supercomputer is launched in Bulgaria
On 21 October 2021, "Discoverer", the latest supercomputer of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC) was inaugurated by Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, in the Sofia Tech Park in Bulgaria.
"Discoverer" will be capable of more than 4.5 petaflops (or 4.5 million billion calculations per second) of processing power. It will help boost research in the EU by, for example, providing high-powered modelling of molecular interactions, or running seismic wave impact simulations, as well as many other research applications in the areas of health, energy, or engineering.
"Discoverer" is the third supercomputer inaugurated by the European High Performance Computing (EuroHPC) Joint Undertaking this year. It has previously inaugurated two other petascale supercomputers: MeluXina in Luxembourg and Vega in Slovenia. Four more supercomputers are underway: Karolina in the Czech Republic, Deucalian in Portugal, LUMI in Finland, and Leonardo in Italy. In July 2021, the Council had adopted the new EuroHPC Joint Undertaking Regulation, bringing a further investment of €7 billion to provide the newest supercomputers and quantum computers, and to support the EU's ambitious research and innovation agenda.
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