The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a contract with GÉANT Association, to provide ultra-high bandwidth, secure, pan-European, interconnect services for the EuroHPC supercomputing infrastructure.
In the Nordic countries, the connectivity service will be offered to High Performance Computing (HPC) sites – including LUMI and Arrhenius – and relevant research data repositories in the Nordic EuroHPC member countries (Denmark, Finland, Sweden). The service will be provided in close collaboration with NORDUnet and the NRENs of the three countries (DeiC, CSC, Sunet).
GÉANT was selected following an open call for tenders launched by the EuroHPC JU in December 2024. The contract, valued at up to 60 million euros, covers the design, implementation, and operation of network infrastructure delivering terabit connectivity over a period of 48 months.
NORDUnet is pleased to have been able to contribute together with CSC, DeiC, and Sunet to the terabit connectivity offer for European HPC. The reach and expertise of European NRENs together with the pan-European scope and backbone network of GÉANT will allow the delivery of a network service of extrodinary capacity and capability. Delivery of terabit-per-second network service marks the advent of a new era for NORDUnet, GÉANT and for European NRENs.
Initial deployment activities are expected to begin in the coming months, with the first services becoming available to users in 2026. These services will progressively expand to connect all EuroHPC supercomputers and their associated AI and quantum sites, enabling researchers, public administrations, and industry across Europe to benefit from seamless, high-speed, and secure access to EuroHPC resources.
Read more at the GÉANT Association website, and in the joint press release on the EuroHPC JU website.
