*There aren't any. Not in the top ten, anyhow. They couldn't work up the gusto even to spend the allotted money on them. Big stand-alone computers just not in political vogue any more, what with clouds and nets and all that.
Fro POLITICO Europe:
"The billion-euro question: Since the original announcement in 2012, the EU managed to spend only €330 million of the billion it allocated to supercomputing. In that time, EU-based computers have dropped out of list of the world’s top 10 supercomputers. Whereas the EU was home to the ninth, 12th and 13th most powerful supercomputers, as of November 2017 its best computer was ranked only 14th: a Lenovo (HQ in China) computer based in Italy, known as Marconi Intel Xeon Phi."
GLOSSARY
The below table explains the key terms or acronyms used in this document.
ASCR Advanced Scientific Computing Research CEF Connecting Europe Facility
CoE Center of Excellence
cPPP Contractual Public-Private Partnership DoE (US) Department of Energy
DSM Digital Single Market
EC European Commission
ECI European Cloud Initiative
EEIG European Economic Interest Grouping
EIB European Investment Bank
ERIC European Research Infrastructure
ETP European Technology Platform
ETP4HPC European Technology Platform for High-Performance Computing Exascale Computing systems capable of 1018 Floating Point Operations per Second FET Future and Emerging Technologies
Flop Floating Point Operations per Second
FP7 7th EU Framework Programme for Research & Innovation
FPA Framework Partnership Agreement
GDP Gross Domestic Product
H2020 Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research & Innovation
HPC High-Performance Computing
ICT Information and Communication Technology
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPRs Intellectual Property Rights
ISV Independent Software Vendors
ITER International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
JTI Joint Technology Initiative
JU Joint Undertaking (as defined by Article 187 TFEU)
LEIT Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies
MFF Multi-annual Financial Framework
NSA (US) National Security Agency
NSCI National Strategic Computing Initiative
OJ Official Journal of the EU
PCP Pre-Commercial Procurement
PPI Public Procurement of Innovative solutions
PPP Public-Private Partnership
PRACE Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe
Pre-exascale Computing power near the exascale performance (i.e. 0.1-0.6 exascale) R&D Research and Development
R&I Research and Innovation
ROI Returns on Investment
SME Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise
SRA Strategic Research Agenda
SSC (PRACE) Scientific Steering Committee
TFEU Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
WP Work Programme
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