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Setting the horizon for European Supercomputing 

EuroEXA was funded by the EU through the Horizon 2020 framework – a research and innovation programme investing nearly €80 billion to fuel breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts, by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.

Our project group was assembled to drive the development of our members’ technologies, working together to co-design the future of EU-based ExaScale supercomputers. To do that, we built testbeds, showing new architectures and technologies which can be extrapolated to demonstrate:

• Compute Performance – up to 400 PetaFLOPS, with an estimated system power of around 30MW peak consumption.

• Energy Efficiency – 250 PetaFLOPS per MW for future iterations of semiconductor technologies within the architecture.

• Compactness – showing that an ExaScale machine could be built within 30 shipping containers, with an edge-to-edge distance of less than 40m for the computers.