The fastest Portuguese supercomputer ever was inaugurated today. Deucalion multiplies the country's computing capacity tenfold.
From today onwards, the Portuguese supercomputer Deucalion will be housed at the University of Minho and accessible to the entire academic community, businesses, and public administration. The inauguration of the Deucalion takes place today at the Azurém Campus of University of Minho, starting at 2:30 pm, and will be attended by the Prime Minister, António Costa, the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Elvira Fortunato and the President of the Foundation for Science and Technology, Madalena Alves.
With the capacity to perform 10 million trillion calculations per second, Deucalion will significantly increase Portugal's high-performance computing capacity. This will accelerate science and innovation in areas such as Artificial Intelligence, personalized medicine, drug and new materials design, climate change and fire control, among others.
This joint project by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), through the FCCN, and the European joint undertaking EuroHPC represents a joint investment of 20 million euros, 35% coming from EuroHPC's community funds and 65% coming from funds from the Recovery and Resilience Plan, received by the FCT, as a direct beneficiary of the Investment RE-C05-i08 “Ciência Mais Digital”.
The supercomputer will be accessible to the academic and research community, businesses, and public administration. The FCT will launch tenders for access to this infrastructure, and specific support programs for SMEs are also planned.
See the video of the inauguration:
