EUROTECH: EUR 4M Order from Selex Elsag for Aurora HPC for Cyber Security Applications.

For some years now the use of HPCs outside the academic and scientific world has been growing. The ever-increasing digitalization of information requires the security segment to process millions of data items within extremely short timescales measured in fractions of a second. One of the most important requirements in the security segment - but also the most difficult to meet - is minimization of the impact of the time taken for security checks on an activities' actual execution times, particularly in the case of financial transactions, or where it is necessary not to give any evidence that a certain activity is subject to massive cross-checks. In addition, modern methods for the identification of cyber crimes increasingly involve techniques requiring the cross-analysis of data coming from several different sources - and these techniques further increase the demand for high levels of computing capacity.

These requirements have created a tangible and growing need for supercomputers, able to perform the large number of checks required in an extremely short time.

We are very pleased that Selex Elsag has chosen our supercomputer for a fast-expanding application like cyber security, commented Roberto Siagri, Eurotech's Chairman and CEO. Right from the start, Aurora architecture has been conceived to be used effectively not only for scientific research but also in the industrial and services domains - and this order confirms the rightness of our vision.