EU Launches $1.2 Billion Supercomputing Plan, Without U.K.
- Brexit may result in U.K. missing out on benefit, experts warn
- Will spend 1 billion euros by 2020 in race for "exascale"
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The European Union will spend one billion euros ($1.2 billion) to try to catch up to China, the U.S. and Japan in supercomputing, the European Commission said Thursday.
But as the initiative launches, uncertainty over Brexit is creating anxiety among British computer scientists that the U.K. may miss out on opportunities from the plan.