The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), together with the National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS), has signed a procurement contract for Arrhenius with selected vendor HPE.
Announced in 2023, Arrhenius will be a mid-range supercomputer capable of executing over 60 petaflops, equivalent to 60 million billion operations per second, enabling the most advanced simulations in science and technology. Arrhenius is intended to drive breakthroughs in areas like drug discovery, new materials design, and climate change mitigation while also powering applications in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and other demanding computational tasks.
The installation of Arrhenius, named after a Swedish geologist and chemist who discovered the silicate mineral gadolinite in 1787, is scheduled to begin in September and is planned to be completed early 2026.
Located at Linköping University in Sweden, Arrhenius will serve a diverse range of users across Europe, including the scientific community, industry, and the public sector. With robust security and data integrity standards, Arrhenius will be ideally suited for sensitive research involving personal data, as well as proprietary product development by private enterprises.
Advancing the European Union’s mission
The procurement of Arrhenius adds a new mid-range supercomputer to the EuroHPC JU portfolio of high-performance computing (HPC) systems, further advancing the European Union’s mission to provide scientists and industries across Europe with access to state-of-the-art supercomputing infrastructure and services.
Once operational, Arrhenius will be complemented by MIMER, the EuroHPC AI Factory (AIF) located in Sweden, which will include a new AI-optimised supercomputer to be deployed through the recently closed tender procedure launched in May.
To equip Europe with a cutting-edge supercomputing infrastructure, the EuroHPC JU has already procured 10 supercomputers. Three of these EuroHPC supercomputers are now ranked among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers, among them LUMI in Finland.
