Supercomputers are powerful research tools, but access to these high-performance machines is not open to everyone in the scientific community. An EU initiative provided hundreds of researchers with access to the latest state-of-the-art supercomputing facilities.
High-performance computing (HPC) is used to crunch mind-boggling amounts of numbers to perform the complex calculations required in data-intensive fields such as weather forecasting, climate research, molecular modelling, quantum mechanics and astronomy. However, there are plenty of applications for which the power of HPCs can be harnessed, but the researchers involved lack the computational resources or know-how.
Further details: Unparalleled access to supercomputers for researchers in Europe