The annual trade show, CeBIT, taking place in Hannover, Germany keeps popping out good news. It looks like Europe is getting a new supercomputer.

Based on IBM’s Blue Gene system, The Julich Research Center is providing the researcher all around the continent a new powerful supercomputer called Julicher Blue Gene/L (JUBL) consists of eight Blue Gene Racks.

With a total number of 16,384 processors the “tiny computer� reaches a maximum processing speed of 45.6 teraflops, the super machine is designed for handling intensive tasks like modeling protein folding or monitor the damage on the ozone layer over the Arctic.

Basically a total number of five projects can run on JUBL simultaneously allowing researchers all over Europe to apply for having their projects helped out by the giant machine.

The project is said to have cost around 10 million euros as its final goal seems to be boosting German but also European science. The largest known supercomputer is called Blue Gene/L and is located in California, reaching a processing speed of 280.6 teraflops per second through its 65,536 processors.

Europe unites this time once more under the European supercomputer.