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Europe ’ s second high-end exascale supercomputer to be hosted in France
Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Bruyères-le-Châtel ( France ) and operated by the ‘ Jules Verne ’ consortium .
This supercomputer represents a joint investment between France , the Netherlands and the EU of around € 540 million . The EU will contribute 50 % of the total costs from the DIGITAL Europe Programme .
Thanks to its massive computing capacity , it will help solve societal challenges in several areas , such as energy ( e . g . support fusion energy development ), health ( e . g . fast analysis of genomic data for virus mutations , rapid disease detection ) and management of climate change ( e . g . providing high-resolution weather forecast models ). It will also advance capabilities in Quantum Computing simulation .
It will be accessible to European researchers and industry as of 2025 and designed with the most ambitious energy efficiency criteria advancing sustainable supercomputing for a greener future .
Europe ’ s second high-end exascale supercomputer will be hosted by the Très Grand Centre de Calcul of the French Alternative
This is the second European exascale supercomputer after JUPITER located in Germany . It is set to surpass the threshold of 1 billion calculations per second , a computing power level comparable to aggregating the computing capabilities of the mobile phones of the EU ’ s entire population .
First ever UK ‘ ghost driver ’ study completes in Nottingham
A novel study undertaken by the University of Nottingham has found that , in the absence of someone in the driving seat , pedestrians trust certain visual prompts more than others when deciding whether to cross in front of an autonomous car .
The aim of the study was to understand how pedestrians respond naturally to self-driving vehicles with different External Human- Machine Interfaces ( eHMIs ) – visual displays positioned on the front of the vehicle . To do this , a car was driven around the university ’ s Park Campus over several days with a ‘ ghost-driver ’ concealed in the driver ’ s seat . A series of different designs projected onto the eHMI informed pedestrians of the car ’ s behaviour and intention – including expressive eyes and a face , accompanied by short text-based language such as ‘ I have seen you ’ or ‘ I am giving way ’. for autonomous vehicles in the UK , we wanted to explore how pedestrians would interact with a driverless car and developed this unique methodology to explore their reactions .
The eHMI was controlled by a team member sat in the back seat , while front and rear dash cam footage was collected to observe pedestrians ’ reactions in real time . Additionally , researchers were placed at four crossing points to ask pedestrians to complete a short survey about their experience of the vehicle and its displays .
“ We were keen to identify which designs invited the highest levels of trust by people wanting to cross the road . To do this we used three different levels of anthropomorphism ; implicit , an LED strip designed to mimic an eye ’ s pupil , low , a vehicle centric icon and words such as ‘ giving way ’ and explicit , an expressive face and human-like language .”
David R . Large , Senior Research Fellow with the Human Factors Research Group at the University of Nottingham , said : “ As part of the ServCity project , which created a blueprint infrastructure
The study took place over several days , during which time 520 pedestrians interacted with the car and 64 survey responses were collected .
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