Europe plans to build the world’s fastest supercomputer in 2024

https://lemmy.world/post/10084819

Europe plans to build the world’s fastest supercomputer in 2024 - Lemmy.World

“Europe is planning”, not a company, not a national agency nor an EU agency, but the whole of Europe? How does that work? I mean we’re pretty much at war, but Russia and Belarus is in on it? How much are Andorra, Monaco, and The Sovereign Order of St. John contributing? What about Overseas France? Do all 13 territories kick in, or is it only the ones that are part of the EU?

Also isn’t a new super computer record set several times each year?

Dude, do you think every time something happens in the US, that all states are in on it?

“The US plans to be the biggest exporter of silicon in 2030”. Do you read that the same way?

“The US plans to be the biggest exporter of silicon in 2030”.

At least you boiled it down to a single country, with national agencies and a government that makes strategies. Like a strategy to be the biggest exporter of silicon, which can result in laws and regulations encouraging silicon exports.

But a whole continent building a super computer? That’s just a bad title. And reading the linked article doesn’t give you any additional information, without signing up for a newsletter?!?

Europe has government and agencies on the European scale. They often make strategies and fund initiative like this with European government funds. They might also influence European legislation to encourage things.

Europe has government and agencies on the European scale.

Since when? AFAIK there’s a European Union and then there’s Europe the continent. Lots of countries in Europe are not part of the union, and given the suffix of your instance you should be aware of this.

This is true, I was wrong. My bad.
I’m very aware that the EU doesn’t encompass all countries in Europe, but when reading a story where they ascribe a action to the continent I read the word Europe as a synonym for EU. It’s fairly common, especially in an American magazine.