Serbia invests 50m euros in French technology for new supercomputer and AI infrastructure

17 april 2025

The Serbian government has signed a 50m euros contract with French company Eviden to supply a new generation supercomputer and develop applications based on artificial intelligence (AI). The deal is part of a broader strategic cooperation agreement between Serbia and France signed in June 2024, BalkanEngineer.com has learned from the Serbian prime minister's statement.

According to the government, 36 million euros of the total amount will be invested in the supercomputer itself, while the remaining 14 million euros will be directed to the development of services and projects in priority public sectors such as healthcare, energy, transport and e-government.

The new system is expected to be installed by the end of 2025 at the State Data Centre in Kragujevac, opened in 2020, which already hosts the first national supercomputer based on technology from US company Nvidia.

According to Mihajlo Jovanovic, director of the Serbian government's IT and e-government office, the new machine will have 20 times more computing chips and almost 30 times more storage capacity than the existing system. It will provide services to the scientific and educational community as well as start-up and established companies, with the aim of accelerating innovation in the public and private sectors.

Eviden, part of the French Atos Group, specialises in areas such as high-performance computing (HPC), cloud technologies, cyber security and big data. The new supercomputer is expected to be a BullSequana-series model designed for the needs of scientific research, industrial simulations and large-scale AI processing.

The deal also includes an additional upgrade to the Nvidia system already installed in Kragujevac, for which a further 40 million euros investment is planned. A separate contract worth 5 million euros was also signed at the end of 2024, which will allow the computing power of the existing infrastructure to be increased by seven times.

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