Poland unveils country's fastest ever supercomputer the size of a small Apartment
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- 02 Nov 2022
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Poland's fastest ever supercomputer has been unveiled in Kraków at the city's elite AGH University of Science and Technology.
Named Athena after the Greek goddess of wisdom, the supercomputer has a mind-boggling computing power of over 7.7 petaflops and according to the university it is set to give a boost to Polish science and innovation.
"The launch of the supercomputer offers completely new opportunities for computationally-intensive science," said Marek MagryÅ›, deputy director for High-Power Computers at the AGH University of Science and Technology Cyfronet.
Athena now takes its place as not only the fastest supercomputer in Poland, but also 105th in the world, and 9th on the Green500 list of the world's greenest supercomputers.
The supercomputer makes it possible to significantly shorten the time needed to perform calculations, which with the use of single computers would often take many years - sometimes over 150, 700 or even 1,000 years.
With Athena, these tasks can be performed within a few hours, and for large tasks a few days.
Athena consists of 48 servers with AMD EPYC processors, each with 1TB of RAM, having a total of 6144 CPU computing cores. In addition, the machine is equipped with 384 NVIDIA A100 GPU cards. Read More…
