Today, high-performance computing plays a crucial role in science and industry. Supercomputers are used for computational modelling in fields such as medicine, climate science and earthquake research, materials science, product design and AI applications. However, all computations require energy, and the growing energy and power demands associated with scaling up HPC are one of the key challenges we currently face in the field.
The REGALE project began in 2021 with the aim of making supercomputers more energy efficient. Scientists and experts from 16 partner institutions focused particularly on the software side of HPC. After three years, the project delivered a comprehensive software toolchain to complement and leverage existing hardware efforts, offering the necessary software to coordinate across threads, processes, nodes and systems.
The results achieved in REGALE are now adopted in a new project called SEANERGYS, which launched in June 2025. Funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and following the call HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2023-ENERGY-04, SEANERGYS is developing a next-generation software solution to improve the energy-efficient operations of EuroHPC supercomputers. In addition to REGALE, the initiative builds upon other previous European projects, including DEEP-SEA and EUPEX.
The new consortium, coordinated by Forschungszentrum Jülich, will develop a unified European software suite that can be seamlessly adopted across diverse and modular supercomputing architectures.
Find out more in the press release of the EuroHPC JU.
