Assembly of the first components of Poland\'s most powerful supercomputer continues in Świerk Computer Centre at the National Centre for Nuclear Research. The main task of the Świerk Computer Centre will be to provide computational support to the Polish energy sector, especially nuclear power.
The main server room is ready, 360 new generation 10 core processors are being installed in the cabinets, as well as 23 TB of RAM and 72 TB of disk space in a 400 GB SSD for high performance and increased error tolerance.
"It\'s almost half of the equipment that the supplier will provide us pursuant to the agreement. Already this part of the computer systems will allow us to increase available capacity fivefold, which in turn will enable testing of our computational models on a much larger scale" - told PAP Head of the Computational Infrastructure Department, Adam Padée.
The next step will be to connect new hardware to the computing cluster already running in Świerk, and configure network connections.
Padée added that the new infrastructure should be launched within 2-3 weeks. "Theoretical efficiency of our resources will increase from 17 to 100 teraflops (trillion floating point operations per second)" - he emphasised.
Ultimately, the main computer cluster efficiency in the Świerk Computer Centre will reach 500 teraflops. This will give the Świerk Computer Centre a place in the top hundred fastest supercomputers in the world.
The centre will have a pioneering hot water computer cooling system, which is simple, reliable and offers rapid increase of energy efficiency, or performance per unit of energy powering the computer.
The value of the entire Świerk Computer Centre project is nearly 100 million zlotys, 85 percent from the European Regional Development Fund and 15 percent from a targeted subsidy of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
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