Luxembourg’s national supercomputer MeluXina launched was launched as part of the EU’s EuroHPC initiative. Operated by LuxProvide, it delivers HPC capabilities to support innovation in sectors such as finance, healthcare, research, and manufacturing. MeluXina is designed to handle large-scale data processing, simulations, and AI applications, playing a key role in Luxembourg’s push to become a leader in digital transformation and data-driven innovation.
Name in original language
MELUXINA Supercomputer
Initiative overview
The compagny Atos has been selected following the call for tender launched in January 2020 for the acquisition, delivery, installation and maintenance of a Petascale supercomputer located in LuxProvides data center in Bissen, Luxembourg.MeluXina will be a petascale supercomputer, capable of executing more than 10 Petaflops, 10 million billion calculations per second and powered by green energy from a cogeneration plant powered by waste wood. This new supercomputing system is expected to be operational early 2021 and will rank in the worlds top 30 supercomputers. MeluXina is funded via a joint investment of about EUR 30 million from the European Union and Luxembourg.The initiative has the following objectives:To develop top-of-the-range exascale supercomputers for processing big data, based on European technology.
Name of responsible organisation (in English)
Ministry of State (METAT; Ministère d'État); Ministry of the Economy (MECO; Ministère de l'Économie); European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU)
