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With the HPC RIVR VEGA project, Slovenia is setting up supercomputer centre at PETA scale level. Project has clear orientation towards research that includes fields of artificial intelligence, processing big data (smart cities, IoT...), medicine, new materials, mechanical engineering and all other advanced science areas.

The European Commission has selected eight centres to house the EuroHPC supercomputers, among them Slovenias supercomputer HPC RIVR VEGA in Maribor. With the HPC RIVR project, Slovenia is setting up its own state-of-the-art supercomputer centre for processing big data, which will include researchers and development centres. With its clear orientation towards the information and technology society, it has set Slovenia at the nexus of regional and European cooperation and has given us the tools we need in the era of ubiquitous data processing and machine decision-making, and will provide digital security. Slovenia is thus cooperating in an ambitious initiative to establish a modern, competitive European EuroHPC supercomputer infrastructure with an exceptionally advanced solution in the hands of local experts.HPC RIVR VEGA project is part of European EuroHPC supercomputer initiative and is a stakeholder in EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. All Slovenian researchers will have equal opportunities for access to new national HPC infrastructure. Up to 20% of the capacity will be also available to Slovenian companies, primarily SMEs.The initiative has the following objectives:To establish a national high-performance computing infrastructure.

Institute of Information Science (IZUM) | Academic and Research Network of Slovenia (ARNES) | University of Maribor (UM) | European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU)