What EuroHPC Joint Undertaking does

EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is a public-private partnership established in 2018 under Council Regulation (EU) 2018/1488, headquartered in Luxembourg, and jointly governed by the European Commission, 38 participating states, and private partners. It operates as the sole pan-European provider of Tier-0 high-performance computing (HPC) and quantum computing infrastructure, delivering free access to researchers, industry, and public administrations through three competitive access tracks. The organization commands an €8.2 billion total programme budget and coordinates 14 supercomputers (including the JUPITER exascale system at Jülich, LUMI in Finland, Leonardo in Italy, and MareNostrum5 in Spain) alongside 10 quantum computers spanning superconducting, trapped-ion, photonic, and neutral-atom modalities, with tight integration to enable hybrid classical-quantum workflows.

Its business model is non-commercial: capital and operating expenditure are co-funded by the EU and member states, and resources are allocated through open calls rather than priced transactions. The recent 2025 regulatory expansion under Council Regulation (EU) 2024/1732 extended EuroHPC's mandate to AI Gigafactories and a formal quantum technologies pillar, and the organization has rapidly built out 19 AI Factories and 13 Antennas targeting more than 3 million European researchers. Strategic vendor relationships with NVIDIA (35 new AI HPC supercomputers, 800 AI exaflops), Bull, IQM, Pasqal, and Quandela anchor the supply side, while national supercomputing centres (Jülich, CINECA, LRZ, BSC-CNS, TGCC, IT4Innovations, Linköping) serve as hosting entities. The combination of sovereign mandate, federated infrastructure, and free access creates a structurally non-replicable position in European compute.

Name

EuroHPC Joint Undertaking

Legal name

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking

Website

https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is a Luxembourg-based EU public-private partnership that provides European researchers, industry, and public administrations with free pan-European access to 14 supercomputers, 10 quantum computers, and 19+ AI Factories under an €8.2 billion budget.

Ownership category

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Product category

High-Performance Computing Infrastructure

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Electronic Computers (3571)

akta.pro primary industry

HPC Supercomputers & Turnkey Systems (HDACAOAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

GPU-Accelerated HPC Systems (HDACAOAC), AI/HPC Converged Systems (Hybrid Training/Simulation) (HDACAOAD), HPC Clusters & Scale-Out Compute (x86/ARM) (HDACAOAB)

Keywords

• High-performance computing
• Quantum computing infrastructure
• Exascale supercomputing
• HPC federation platform
• AI factory network

Headquarters

HQ city

Luxembourg

HQ country

Luxembourg

HQ region

Europe

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Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations

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Core offering

EuroHPC JU procures, deploys and federates a pan-European infrastructure of Tier-0 supercomputers, quantum computers, and AI Factories, then allocates free compute time to European researchers, industry, SMEs and public administrations via competitive access calls. The organization funds research and innovation projects and operates a Federation Platform that links national supercomputing centers across 38 participating states.

Product overview

EuroHPC Joint Undertaking operates a unified ecosystem of world-class supercomputers and quantum computers providing European researchers, industry, and public administrations with access to Tier-0 HPC resources. The portfolio includes 14 supercomputers (including exascale system JUPITER in Germany) and 10 quantum computers across different technology platforms (superconducting qubits, trapped ions, photonic, and neutral atoms). The infrastructure is complemented by 19+ AI Factories and 13 AI Factory Antennas, forming a pan-European network for AI development. Quantum computers like Euro-Q-Exa (Germany), Lucy (France), SOL (Italy), and VLQ (Czechia) are tightly integrated with supercomputers such as SuperMUC-NG, Joliot-Curie, Leonardo, and Karolina, enabling hybrid classical-quantum workflows. The organization also coordinates 62 Research & Innovation projects and supports AI Gigafactories for frontier AI development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• JUPITER Europe's first exascale supercomputer operated by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany, delivering 1 ExaFLOP/s at 64-bit precision for European researchers and industry.
• EuroHPC Supercomputers

Quantifiable outcome

• JUPITER achieved 1 ExaFLOP/s computing performance, making it the first European supercomputer to officially exceed the exascale threshold
• +3 more outcomes

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

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No

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App detail

Integration8 records

AI capability9 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• NVIDIAcoreTechnology or Integration · 23 June 2026NVIDIA deploying 35 new AI HPC supercomputers across Europe using Blackwell and Hopper architectures, representing 800 AI exaflops. Systems at national supercomputing centers, AI factories, and research institutes to serve over 3 million researchers.
• PasqalcoreTechnology or Integration · 11 June 2026Pasqal supplied SOL, a neutral-atom 140-qubit quantum computer installed at CINECA in Bologna, Italy as part of the IT4LIA AI Factory. System cost EUR 13 million, co-funded 50/50 by EuroHPC JU and Italy. Expected to serve European users by autumn 2026.
• Bull (formerly Atos subsidiary)coreTechnology or Integration · 11 June 2026Bull provided the LISA upgrade (1,328 GPUs, EUR 50 million investment) to the Leonardo supercomputer at CINECA, Italy. Bull is the former Atos subsidiary recently carved out as independent company following French State's €404 million acquisition.
• CINECA (Italy)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 June 2026CINECA hosts multiple EuroHPC systems including Leonardo supercomputer, LISA AI partition, and quantum computers SOL and NOX. Italy inaugurated five new HPC systems at CINECA representing €49 million investment co-funded by National Recovery and Resilience Plan and EuroHPC JU.
• VSB - Technical University of OstravacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 12 May 2026VSB - Technical University of Ostrava coordinates Czech AI Factory (CZAI), national AI services and supercomputing ecosystem launched as Czech node of European AI Factories network. Total budget nearly CZK 1 billion (€40 million), half funded by EuroHPC JU.
• Bull (Sweden)coreTechnology or Integration · 22 April 2026Bull won €30 million five-year contract to deploy BullSequana XH3500 AI-optimized supercomputer at Sweden's Mimer AI factory at Linköping University. System procured by EuroHPC JU, co-funded by Digital Europe Programme and Swedish Research Council. First integration of Edge AI hardware accelerators from Axelera AI.
• QuandelacoreTechnology or Integration · 14 April 2026Quandela delivered Lucy, a 12-qubit photonic quantum computer based on MOSAIQ-12 platform, at France's TGCC facility near Paris. Acquisition cost EUR 8.5 million co-funded by EuroHPC and France. Freely accessible to European users following calibration.
• IQM Quantum ComputerscoreTechnology or Integration · 13 February 2026IQM Quantum Computers developed Euro-Q-Exa, a 54-qubit superconducting quantum computer at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching, Germany. €25m acquisition cost funded by EuroHPC JU (€10m) and German federal/Bavarian state ministries (€15m). Plans for 150-qubit upgrade by end of 2026.
• Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 February 2026LRZ in Garching, Germany hosts Euro-Q-Exa, first EuroHPC quantum computer in Germany, enabling hybrid quantum-classical workflows for European researchers via Munich Quantum Portal.
• European Quantum Computing ConsortiumcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 September 2025Europe inaugurated VLQ quantum computer co-funded by EuroHPC and eight European countries. VLQ integrated with EuroHPC supercomputer Karolina in Czechia, enabling advanced applications like Quantum Machine Learning.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE/SC): The DOE Office of Science is the closest analog to EuroHPC JU, funding and operating Tier-0 systems including Frontier at Oak Ridge (first US exascale, #1 on TOP500) and Aurora at Argonne. Both organizations serve as federal-level coordinators of national HPC research infrastructure with similar governance and mission structures.
• RIKEN Center for Computational Science (Japan): RIKEN CCS operates Fugaku, Japan's flagship supercomputer and former #1 on TOP500. It serves as a national-level HPC operator and research coordinator with a similar mandate to EuroHPC's hosting entities, providing Tier-0 access for scientific research.
• NSF ACCESS Program (U.S. National Science Foundation): NSF ACCESS is the U.S. counterpart program providing allocations and access to HPC resources for open scientific research. While operating at smaller scale than EuroHPC, it shares the mission of democratizing access to advanced computing for researchers and represents a comparable allocation/access model.
• National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi (NSCC-Wuxi): NSCC-Wuxi operates Sunway TaihuLight and other Chinese national supercomputers, serving as China's Tier-0 HPC operator. It is a direct international peer to EuroHPC's hosting entities in scale and mission, though with a different governance model.

Direct peers

• Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS): CSCS operates the Alps supercomputer in Switzerland, one of the most powerful systems in Europe and a direct European peer to EuroHPC's Tier-0 systems. CSCS provides national-level HPC access and is a key provider of compute resources to the European research community.
• Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC): JSC operates JUPITER, Europe's first exascale supercomputer, on behalf of EuroHPC JU. As a Tier-0 hosting entity and co-developer of the JURECA/JUWELS/JUPITER series, JSC is a direct operational peer for managing flagship HPC systems.
• CINECA: CINECA is the Italian national supercomputing consortium operating Leonardo, one of EuroHPC's pre-exascale systems, and hosts multiple quantum computers (SOL, NOX). It is both a hosting entity for EuroHPC infrastructure and a peer in operating Tier-0 systems for research and industry.
• Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS): BSC operates MareNostrum 5, one of EuroHPC's pre-exascale flagship systems, and is hosting EuroQCS-Spain. BSC is a Spanish Tier-0 operator and a peer hosting entity within the EuroHPC federation.
• GENCI (Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif): GENCI is France's national HPC agency that procures and operates Joliot-Curie and upcoming Alice Recoque. It allocates compute time to French researchers and is a national-level peer in coordinating HPC infrastructure access, partially overlapping with EuroHPC's mandate.
• CSC IT Center for Science (Finland): CSC operates LUMI, one of EuroHPC's flagship pre-exascale systems based in Finland. As a Finnish national computing center and LUMI consortium host, CSC is both a hosting partner and operational peer in delivering Tier-0 compute to European researchers.

Market position

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Customer concentration

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M&A

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