EU wants to spend €1bn on supercomputers
The European Union is planning to spend one billion euros on supercomputers to help with research into creating artificial intelligence and fighting climate change.
Brussels officials said Europe was “lagging behind” on supercomputers, noting that none of the world’s top ten most powerful machines were in the EU.
The European Commission is proposing that the sum be allocated for the systems in the upcoming EU budget, with the aim of building two “world class” “pre-exascale” machines capable of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second, and another two mid-range machines in development.
/Source: Independent/
Sept. 26, 2018