Salomon | Czech Republic
Scientists in the Czech Republic utilized the supercomputer Salomon, which was put into operation in 2015 until December 2021. It has been in operation for six years, has computed a total of 8,700,000 computational tasks, has been involved in 1,085 research projects, and has logged a total of 1,014 million hours of computing time. Its computational power was 2 Petaflops.
What does it mean, 2 Petaflops? Having the theoretical peak performance of 2,011,000,000,000,000 operations per second, Salomon has, compared to a laptop (processor i5, 4 x 2.3 GHz), 13230 times higher computational power, a 17 856 times bigger RAM, and a 3 800 times bigger and 300 times faster disc. However, this comparison does not accurately reflect the capabilities of a supercomputer compared to a regular computer. The calculations that a supercomputer performs are often not possible on a regular computer.
