Greeces first supercomputer coming later this year Greece is to acquire its first supercomputer - or high-performance computing system - by the end of the year, with the completion of a system commissioned by GRNET. The Greek Research and Technology Network has carried out an open international tender, awarding the contract for the supply and installation of the new system to Cosmos Business Systems in a partnership with IBM. Once complete, the new infrastructure will support a wide array of scientific applications and is expected to play an important role in developing and promoting scientific research in Greece and southeastern Europe. The system aims to provide a national-scale supercomputing infrastructure and to be integrated into the Tier-1 European supercomputing ecosystem of Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE). It hopes to be among the 500 most powerful computers in the world, enhancing Greeces participation in PRACE. This High Performance Computer system is expected to play an important role at the national level by facilitating high-level scientific research, meeting the needs of Greek users in multiple disciplines - Computational Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Biomedicine, Meteorology, Seismology,ComputationalEngineering and Materials Science - and improving their access to PRACE European infrastructure.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 01:24:28 +0000
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