Project manager Professor Ren,
We are delighted with the fact that Slovenia was put on the European map of supercomputers today. As part of the European project EuroHPC, we welcome the Vega supercomputer, one of the five petascale supercomputers in the EU. Along with three others, they form the European network of supercomputers. I am pleased that the European Union, and with it Slovenia, has been ranked alongside other world superpowers in information technology.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, our compatriot Jurij Vega was widely known for his logarithmic tables and for calculating the mathematical constant pi to an accuracy of 140 decimal places. Today, competitions take place across the world where winners calculate pi to tens of thousands of decimal places.