The EU is tying China and the United States with supercomputing

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The EU will launch the post-exascale supercomputer Jupiter, tying China and the United States. According to the news on June 18, the global supercomputer TOP500 list for the first half of this year has been announced recently, and the US supercomputer "Frontier", which entered the list for the first time, ranks first. This is the world's first computing power of 10 billion times per second. The supercomputing of floating-point operations has opened up the era of post-exascale supercomputers.

Currently, the first post-exascale computer will be the EU's Jupiter supercomputer, which represents a joint commitment to innovation and transformative exascale research . Europe hopes to enter the same track with China and the United States. The European High Performance Computing Joint Project (EuroHPC JU) has announced that Germany will bring the first public European exascale supercomputer mainframe, as well as four other smaller but still powerful supercomputing systems.

After human society entered the Internet era, Europe is indeed relatively unknown in terms of computer hardware, chips, and software compared to the United States and China. However, in the past two years, the European Union has realized this problem. Whether it is in computer hardware, in chips, or in the formulation of big data laws and regulations, it is very active, especially in the formulation and supervision of laws and regulations on big data and Internet information privacy. Global front.

Now it is making efforts at the supercomputing level, including the quantum computing level, and has achieved relatively good results. It can be said that the EU is a sleeping lion. For example, Europe still has a strong advantage in basic physics research. For example, there is a large hadron collider in Geneva, Switzerland, which has been exploring more microscopic physics such as particles and quarks. aspects of things.

So when this sleeping lion wakes up, whether it can use its strong leadership to unite the EU to develop technology together, it still seems to have great hope, but more time needs to be given. This is an era of technological competition. In this century, it is not only China and the United States that are engaged in technological competition, but the European Union is also actively joining.