The UK is joining the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC), providing British researchers, businesses and academics the opportunity to access future supercomputer research funding.

The move aims to boost the UK’s supercomputing research community to power the discovery of new drugs, harness the full potential of AI, and more.

EuroHPC brings together top-class supercomputing resources from across 35 countries, including Norway, Turkey, and all 27 EU member states, to drive research in the next generation of computing technologies. The UK has secured enhanced access to the Horizon Europe funded portion of the programme, worth over £770 million between 2021 to 2027.

The move will support our scientists to make use of the cutting-edge European supercomputing facilities the UK gained access to through Horizon Europe. Their ability to solve problems and perform calculations with more speed and power than traditional computers are capable of, make these systems vital to the development of exciting discoveries that will benefit us all, from new medical treatments to novel clean energy applications.

By joining the Joint Undertaking, UK scientists will have the opportunity to bid for vital research support, strengthening the UK’s computer capacity.

In November, the UK’s deal to associate with Horizon Europe secured UK researchers access to future EuroHPC supercomputers, which may have been lost due to Brexit.

The UK is now set to gain further access to the Horizon Europe-funded portion of EuroHPC, which is worth around £770 million from 2021 to 2027.

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With match funding from the government, UK researchers, businesses and scientists can now bid confidently for further EuroHPC grants, ensuring our brightest minds have access to cutting-edge compute facilities.

Through EuroHPC, UK researchers now have access to:

• LUMI, a pre-exascale EuroHPC supercomputer located in Kajaani, Finland.
• Leonardo, a pre-exascale EuroHPC supercomputer in the Bologna Technopole, Italy.
• MareNostrum 5, a pre-exascale EuroHPC supercomputer =located in Barcelona, Spain.
• MeluXina, a petascale EuroHPC supercomputer located in Bissen, Luxembourg.
• Karolina, a petascale EuroHPC supercomputer located in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
• Discoverer, a petascale EuroHPC supercomputer located in Sofia, Bulgaria.
• Vega, a petascale EuroHPC supercomputer located in Maribor, Slovenia.
• Deucalion, a petascale EuroHPC supercomputer located in Guimarães, Portugal.