Europe will see the switch-on of Jupiter, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, later this year

‘The dream of a European machine crossing the exaflop threshold with a European microprocessor inside is coming true,’ says Philippe Notton, CEO of SiPearl, the EU-backed start-up that designed the device

European and Japanese scientists will fine tune their scientific models on each other’s machines, hopefully boosting performance and future-proofing code. It’s the latest push from Brussels to create stronger research links with ‘like-minded’ democracies

In her speech to MEPs, Ursula von der Leyen also called for an equivalent body to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with a brief to ‘set minimum global standards” for safe and ethical use of AI

‘Talent tracker’ will monitor mobility and working conditions, as part of moves to make scientific careers more attractive

MEPs vote through joint position on €8B supercomputing collaboration, aiming to ensure more balance between small and large partners. This paves the way for 11 other big research partnerships in Horizon Europe

Funding boost for supercomputers and artificial intelligence will help the EU assert its digital sovereignty, MEPs say

The Vega supercomputer is the first petascale system to be procured through the EuroHPC Joint undertaking

Digital Europe will fill the gap between research and deployment, investing €2.2B in supercomputing and €2B in artificial intelligence

In what is promised as one of many initiatives to reduce dependence on US and Chinese technology, the EU public-private partnership on high performance computing gets twice as much money and an extended brief