EuroHPC picks France's Jules Verne consortium to host Europe's second exascale supercomputer at TGCC

GENCI / CEA/Alice Recoque

The EU's EuroHPC body chose the Jules Verne consortium, led by GENCI with CEA as host site and the Netherlands' SURF taking part, to run Europe's second exascale machine after Germany's JUPITER. It will sit at CEA's TGCC in Bruyères-le-Châtel and serve science, industry and the public sector.

• Budget of about €540M, with EuroHPC paying up to half
• GENCI is the hosting entity, CEA the hosting site
• Uses include climate, weather, medicine, materials and large-scale AI