Our Superheroes
Karolina
Karolina
The Karolina supercomputer is a petascale system that IT4Innovations installed and launched in 2021. This year, Karolina also ranked 69th globally in the TOP500, a ranking that tracks supercomputers in terms of their performance. Within Europe, it ranked 19th on the list and also boasts the 8th most energy-efficient supercomputer. Karolina’s electricity consumption is around 800kW, similar to a small village of 2000 inhabitants.
Barbora
Barbora
IT4Innovations commissioned the Barbora supercomputer in October 2019, offering a theoretical performance of 849 TFlop/s per second. And what makes up its computing power? A total of 192 standard compute nodes, an additional eight compute nodes with GPU accelerators, and one fat node seeded with 16 6TB core processors. All nodes are equipped with Intel processors; the accelerators are from NVIDIA.
Komondor
Komondor
Komondor’s high-tech, energy-efficient Cray EX system is equivalent to the world’s most powerful supercomputer (Frontier) system, manufactured by HPC technology leader Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The installation and testing of the supercomputer began in September 2022.
Altair
Altair
The name Altair is a direct reference to the previous system, as it is the brightest star in the constellation of the Eagle (Latin: Aquila). Our machine of this name shines strongly on the lists of the world’s supercomputers, but most importantly, it equally supports scientists in their research and daily work.
Devana
Devana
The Devana supercomputer project, along with its grid infrastructure, was initiated to meet the demands of Slovakia’s scientific and research community engaged in intensive numerical computations and modelling. Launched in 2023 as a successor to the Aurel supercomputer, Devana boasts a performance of 800 TFLOP/s, rendering it six times more powerful than its predecessor and marking it as the most potent publicly accessible high-performance computing (HPC) device in the country.
Salomon
Salomon
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.
Eagle
Eagle
The eagle is a national symbol of Poland, always present on seals and knights’ shields. Deployed at the beginning of 2016, it is one of the most powerful supercomputer systems in the world. It is an important element of large-scale computing for Polish science and business, which enables research, simulation, and analysis of problems that, due to their complexity, could only be considered in the largest computing centres.
Leo
Leo
KIFÜ has been operating its supercomputer infrastructure since 2001. The components of this infrastructure (computational and data storage facilities) can be found in 5 locations. Leo, our most powerful HPC site, is a cluster type machine located in Debrecen, the second largest city in Hungary. The overall processing power of the 1344 CPU cores and the 252 GPUs is around 254 Tflop/s. Concerning the storage capacity, a total of 585 TB can be used for computational purposes.
Aurel
Aurel
The project was launched due to an existing need to create a supercomputer and grid based infrastructure able to provide very complex numerical calculations and modelling for science and research in Slovakia. The Aurel supercomputer introduced a processing power of 128 teraflops per second, 4,000 times more powerful than a standard computer. Scientists at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and partner universities have had a supercomputer for complex calculations in basic and applied research from 2012 to 2021.
