Europe’s petascale supercomputer journey began after Vega, the EuroHPC supercomputer was officially inaugurated on 20 April, at a ceremony in Maribor, Slovenia.
Janez Janša, the Prime Minister of Slovenia and Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age, officially turned on the supercomputer which has been made possible thanks to a partnership between the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and the Institute of Information Science (IZUM), in Maribor, Slovenia. Both parties have jointly invested EUR 17.2 million.