Supercomputing in Europe

Several centers for supercomputing abide beyond Europe, and broadcast admission to them is accommodating by European initiatives to facilitate high-performance computing. One such initiative, the HPC Europa project, fits aural the Broadcast European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA), which was formed in 2002 as a bunch of eleven supercomputing centers from seven European countries. Operating aural the CORDIS framework, HPC Europa aims to accommodate admission to supercomputers beyond Europe.1

In June 2011, France's Tera 100 was certified the fastest supercomputer in Europe, and ranked 9th in the world.234 It was the aboriginal petaflops-scale supercomputer advised and congenital in Europe.5

Bulgaria

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Sofia operates an IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer, which offers high-performance processing to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Sofia University, amid added organizations.6 This arrangement is one of the few supercomputers in Eastern Europe, and the alone one in the Balkans. The arrangement was on the TOP500 account until November 2009, back it ranked as cardinal 379.7

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The Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives operates the Tera 100 apparatus in the Analysis and Technology Computing Center in Essonne, Île-de-France. The Tera 100 has a aiguille processing acceleration of 1,050 teraflops, authoritative it the fastest supercomputer in Europe as of 2011.8 Built by Groupe Bull, it has 140,000 processors.9

The National Computer Center of College Apprenticeship (French acronym: CINES) was accustomed in Montpellier in 1999, and offers computer casework for analysis and college education.1011 It operates the Jade SGI Altix system, which has a aiguille processing acceleration of 237 teraflops, and is the third-fastest supercomputer in France, the second-fastest actuality a bartering arrangement operated by a French accomplishment company.citation needed

Germany

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) and the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing accordingly own the JUGENE, the fastest supercomputer in Germany, at the Forschungszentrum Jülich in North Rhine-Westphalia. JUGENE is based on IBM's Blue Gene/P architecture, and in June 2011 was ranked the 12th-fastest computer in the apple by TOP500.12 The Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, a supercomputing centermost in Munich, houses the SuperMUC arrangement which is accepted to activate operating in 2012 at a processing acceleration of 3 petaflops. This will be, at the time it enters service, the fastest supercomputer in Europe.

The High Performance Accretion Centermost in Stuttgart maintains a ample cardinal of medium-sized accretion platforms, rather than possessing a baby cardinal of actual high-end systems.13 The UNICORE initiative, a filigree accretion activity by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, aims to accommodate seamless admission to broadcast accretion assets such as supercomputers or array systems.

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The European Filigree Infrastructure, a continent-wide broadcast accretion system, is headquartered at the Science Park in Amsterdam.14

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The Polish Filigree Basement PL-Grid began in 2009 as a civic accretion infrastructure. The Galera computer array at the Gdansk University of Technology was ranked 299th on the TOP500 account in November 2010.1516

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In Nov 2011, the 33072 processor Lomonosov supercomputer in Moscow developed by T-Platforms ranked cardinal 18 in the world, and 3rd in Europe afterwards France and Germany.17 The arrangement uses Xeon 2.93 GHz, Nvidia 2070 GPUs, and an Infiniband interconnect.17 In Nov 2011 Russia had no added admission in the top 100 supercomputers.18

In July 2011 The Russian government appear a plan to focus on beyond supercomputers by 2020.19 T-Plaforms has declared it will bear a baptize cooled supercomputer in 2013.20

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The Magerit computer at the Supercomputing and Visualization Centermost of Madrid.

The Barcelona Supercomputing Centermost is amid at the Technical University of Catalonia, and operates the 94.21-teraflop MareNostrum computer. The Supercomputing and Visualization Centermost of Madrid (CeSViMa) analysis centermost at the Technical University of Madrid operates the 72-teraflop Magerit supercomputer, which uses 86 IBM BladeCenters. The Spanish Supercomputing Network along provides admission to several supercomputers broadcast beyond Spain.

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Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology operates the Lindgren supercomputer, which consists of 36,000 processors and operates at 305 teraflops.21

Switzerland

The Swiss Civic Supercomputing Centre was founded in 1991 and is operated by ETH Zurich. It is based in Manno, Ticino, and provides supercomputing casework to civic analysis institutions and Swiss universities, as able-bodied as the all-embracing CERN organisation and MeteoSchweiz, the Swiss acclimate service.22 In February 2011, the centermost placed an adjustment for a Cray XMT massively alongside supercomputer.23

The IBM Aquasar supercomputer became operational at ETH Zurich in 2010. It uses hot baptize cooling to accomplish calefaction efficiency, with the computation-heated baptize acclimated to calefaction the barrio of the university campus.2425

UK

The EPCC supercomputer centermost at the University of Edinburgh was accustomed in 1990.26 The HECToR activity at the University of Edinburgh provides supercomputing casework application a 360-teraflop Cray XE6 system, the fastest supercomputer in the UK.27 The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in Reading, Berkshire, operates a 100-teraflop IBM pSeries-based system.