Cooperation between researchers into a potentially massive new source of sustainable energy and European supercomputers promises to speed up work that could supply the energy needs of the planet.

The European Commission have announced they will give scientists all over Europe working on nuclear fusion dedicated access to the network of the most powerful national supercomputers in Europe (DEISA).

Europe's distributed high-performance computing service uses the world's largest computer network to share the huge amounts of data and processing power of Europe's supercomputers, and is receiving EUR 26 million from the EU from 2004-2011.

"We expect the new partnership between the supercomputing services of DEISA and the European nuclear fusion community to make an enormous contribution to nuclear fusion's potential as a viable energy source and power Europe's role in this quest," said Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media.

The Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA) currently operates 12 of the world's 100 most powerful supercomputers.

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