The European industry would be in the coming years on high-performance computing. The EU will therefore use the budget for investment in the hpc market to double to by 2020, exascale-supercomputers to be able to build.
That sets the european commissioner for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes. According to Neelie Kroes, the extra investment in the European hpc sector is sorely needed, because the market position of European companies in this sector backward. In addition, supercomputers, according to the commissioner is essential in sectors such as the aerospace and automotive industries, and in health care.
Neelie Kroes wants to see the European hpc market is an additional incentive to give subsidies to this sector doubled from 630 million euro to 1.2 billion euro. A part of the extra money would be put in PRACE, a Brussels-influential European non-profit organization that the hpc market and between the EU member states should strengthen and investigations should start.
The EU would further companies should stimulate more acquisitions of hardware and software, while there is also more money should go to educating staff that can write software for sectors such as energy, klimaatkunde and life sciences.
According to Neelie Kroes, the additional investment in the European high performance computing market look for to ensure that before 2020 there supercomputers in Europe available on exascale-level performance. An exascale supercomputer can 1018 calculations per second to perform and is seen as the next frontier after the breaking of the petaflop boundary.