Investment | Price benchmarks | 07
Supercomputer
At the top of the spectrum, our typical role is owner's engineer: we write the requirements, evaluate the bids, audit the performance claims and oversee acceptance. The general contractor stays separate — as good practice requires.
Typical configuration
National scale / EuroHPC class
Investment range
€10–300M
What this tier involves
- Typical role
- Owner's engineer / technical assistance
- Comparators
- Arrhenius (SE, 60+ PF) €68.5M | JUPITER (DE) €273M | Alice Recoque (FR) €354.8M
- Validation
- HPL, HPCG, STREAM & MLPerf, with formal acceptance testing
- Fee
- Basic €60–250k | Platinum €0.45–11M | Supreme €0.3–4M/year
Indicative figures, August 2026, excluding VAT. High volatility on GPUs and memory — firm quotes are valid for 30–60 days. The final price is set at scoping.
What matters at this scale
At this scale the machine, the institution that governs it and the staff who operate it are designed within the same programme — the discipline applied in the DEUS 11 dossier.
- Heterogeneous by design
- Multi-vendor partitions per workload class, on one fabric and one scheduler, for independence from any single ecosystem
- Procurement
- Tender documents with benchmark-verifiable award criteria and lot division adapted to the market
- The institution
- Governance on the European hosting-entity model, with mandate, operation and peer-review allocation kept separate
- The people
- A fully costed human-capital plan, training the specialists in parallel with delivery
- Expansion
- Positions reserved at floor, power and cooling level for the next accelerator generations
- Acceptance
- Formal benchmarks and a stability period before entry into production