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Greece Inaugurates Daedalus National Supercomputer

lite News Desk 1 min read

Greece held the inauguration of its Daedalus national supercomputer at Lavrio Technological and Cultural Park on October 19, 2026, according to the Ministry of Digital Governance and Artificial Intelligence. The ceremony preceded further testing and technical adjustments, with services expected to start in December 2026, according to a statement by Minister Dimitris Papastergiou at the event.

The ministry said the planned users of Daedalus include researchers, universities, startups and businesses in Greece. Its intended role also includes providing the computing platform for Pharos, the Greek AI Factory.

For the system’s measured performance, the ministry gave a figure of 85.69 petaflops and listed its positions as 31st in TOP500 and 23rd in Green500. The ministry said no previous computing system in Greece had matched Daedalus’s computing power.

According to the ministry, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attended the inauguration alongside Papastergiou, whose ministerial portfolio covers digital governance and artificial intelligence.

The project’s budget totals €58.9 million with VAT included, according to GRNET. Within that amount, €41 million is allocated to Hewlett Packard Enterprise for the provision and installation of computing equipment and associated items. The remaining €17.9 million is for MainSys SA’s work configuring the data centre and electromechanical infrastructure.

GRNET said it coordinates Daedalus within Greece’s Recovery and Resilience Plan. It identified the European Union’s NextGenerationEU recovery funds and the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking, known as EuroHPC, as funding sources.

The intended applications were outlined by EuroHPC in March 2025 when it announced the procurement contract. They included medicine, meteorology and artificial intelligence, alongside smart transport and analysis of large datasets. At that stage, EuroHPC said the system was planned for a location in Greece and for integration with Pharos, which was then among its forthcoming AI Factories.

* This article is based on publicly available information at the time of writing.

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