Policies on HPC

The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) will pool European resources to develop top-of-the-range exascale supercomputers for processing big data, based on competitive European technology.

A strong cooperation with the High Performance Computing stakeholders is key for the success of the High Performance Computing strategy. A contractual Public-Private Partnership on High Performance Computing entered into force in January 2014 to develop an ambitious research and innovation strategy.

High performance computing (HPC), also known as supercomputing, involves thousands of processors working in parallel to analyse billions of pieces of data in real time, performing calculations thousands of times faster than a normal computer. In the digital era, it is at the core of major advances and innovation and a strategic resource for Europe's future.

Many objects in our world are controlled by computers: cars, buildings, manufacturing machines or even musical instruments. In these cases, computers interact directly with the physical world. That is why we call them “cyber-physical systems” (CPS).