Identification and framing
Acronym: DEUCALION
Project Title: DEUCALION
Program: EuroHPC Petascale Supercomputer
Ref.: EUROHPC-2019-CEI-PT-01
Start Date: 01-09-2020
End Date: 31-12-2023
EUROHPC Financing: 6.925.000€
FCT Funding: 13.224.072€
Total value: 20.149.072 €
Amount executed on 08/31/2023: 17.224.053 € (85%)
Project Summary
- Objectives
The contract for hosting and co-financing a new EuroHPC petascale supercomputer was signed between the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Subsequently, EuroHPC JU held an international procurement competition and selected Fujitsu Portugal as the supplier.
This HPC system, called “Deucalion”, installed in Portugal, is a supercomputer of scale by (petascale), capable of performing 10 Petaflops, or 10 million trillion calculations per second. The machine will use several advanced technologies, including Fujitsu's ARM A64FX processor, also used in Fugaku, one of the world's fastest supercomputers. Deucalion was installed at the University of Minho, in Guimarães.
Deucalion will also enable the development of a unique and innovative context for applying European and global principles of green computing, leveraging a fully sustainable infrastructure, co-financed by national funds allocated to the Science area and European structural funds allocated to the North region and the Innovation Support Fund and Energy Efficiency Fund (the latter under the supervision of the Minister for the Environment and Climate Action).
This is an important new national and European resource that will contribute to more and better research and innovation.
