Yahoo – AFP,
January 11, 2018
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| China overtook the United States in numbers and performance for supercomputers in a ranking last November, followed by Switzerland and Japan in third and fourth place |
The EU
unveiled plans Thursday to raise one billion euros to build superfast computers
that catch up with China and others to boost Europe's economy, make medical
advances and fight hacking.
China
overtook the United States in numbers and performance for supercomputers in a
ranking last November, followed by non-EU Switzerland and Japan in third and
fourth place.
"It is
a tough race and today the EU is lagging behind: we do not have any
supercomputers in the world's top ten," said Andrus Ansip, the European
Commisssion vice president for the digital single market.
The
European Commission, the EU executive, said it would contribute around 486
million euros ($580 million) for a "High Performance Computing (EuroHPC)
infrastructure", that would then be matched by EU nations.
"We
want to give European researchers and companies world-leading supercomputer
capacity by 2020," Ansip said in a statement.
Brussels
says it will help develop artificial intelligence and applications to improve
health, security and engineering, plus help forecast hurricane routes and
simulate earthquakes.
European
scientists and industry risk yielding secrets or sensitive information as they
increasingly process data outside the EU to perform tasks in the absence of the
best supercomputers, the commission said.
The EU unveils plans to raise one billion euros to build superfast computers that catch up with China and others to boost Europe's economy, make medical advances and fight hacking https://t.co/jDqhGcGtuF pic.twitter.com/qPxxsHJPai— AFP news agency (@AFP) January 11, 2018
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