Minister of the Economy Etienne Schneider announced the name of the new supercomputer set to be built in Luxembourg on Friday. The supercomputer, which will be capable of processing data at extreme speeds, will be named Meluxina, in homage to Luxembourg’s mythical water goddess.
The minister said in principle, everyone should be able to use the supercomputer. In a digital world, more and more data will require analysis, so the supercomputer’s capacity to process quadrillions of calculations per second will be beneficial to a number of industries, whether research-based, medical, or virtual.
It will be dedicated to applications in research, personalised medicine and eHealth projects, but also to the needs of companies, in particular SMEs and start-ups. In order to facilitate access to the use of Meluxina’s capabilities, a specific skills centre will guide and support companies with limited skills in this area, thus creating up to 50 new jobs.
Meluxina will be installed in the LuxConnect data center in Bissen and powered exclusively by green energy from Kiowatt, a cogeneration power plant fuelled by waste wood.
The Meluxina computer will form part of an 8 machine network across Europe, with the European Union bearing a percentage of the costs involved. In total around 30 million euros have been invested in the project. The EuroHPC-network’s new seat will be situated in Luxembourg as well.
