Austria joins EuroHPC

The Austrian Minister of Education, Science and Research Heinz Faßmann signed the EuroHPC Declaration in Vienna on June 13, 2018, in the presence of Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society.

With this signature, Austria becomes the eighteenth European country to join this national and European effort to build the next generation of high performance computing and data infrastructure.

By signing the EuroHPC declaration, Austria has announced its intention of joining the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) proposed by the European Commission in January 2018, once it is formally adopted by the Council of the European Union. This is expected in the next few months.

For more information please have a look at the press coverage:

german:

EC: Österreich unterzeichnet europäische Erklärung zum Hochleistungsrechnen (HPC)

FFG: Beteiligung an europäischen Supercomputern zentral für Wettbewerbsfähigkeit

WKÖ: Wirtschaft unterstützt Österreichs Beitritt zu EU High Performance Computing Initiative (EuroHPC)

Österreich nimmt an EuroHPC teil

english:

Austria joins EuroHPC

Austria joins European declaration on high performance computing

Austria Joins European Declaration on High Performance Computing

European Commission and EuroHPC:

The European declaration on High-Performance Computing

High-Performance Computing

The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking - EuroHPC

European Commission proposes to invest EUR 1 billion in world-class European supercomputers

European Commission - Fact Sheet: HPC and EuroHPC initiative

EuroHPC

EuroHPC - Europe's journey to exascale HPC

(Announcement posted on 13.06.2018.)