Polish supercomputer unveiled
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
28.04.2015 14:16
A new computer with a power of 40,000 PCs has been built in Kraków.
Photo: PAP/Stanisław Rozpędzik
The Prometheus machine is the most powerful Polish computer ever built
It weighs 30 metric tonnes and fits in 15 server cases.
The machine in Kraków’s AGH University of Science and Technology, cost PLN 41 million.
Photo: PAP/Stanisław Rozpędzik
It will serve scientists from different fields, computing complex calculations in the fields of chemistry, physics, astrophysics, nanotechnology, energy, biology and medicine.
“At the beginning of the 21st century, Prometheus introduces a new era for Polish science. We believe that the massive computing power be able to serve scientists from all over Poland to perform the most demanding and time-consuming computing tasks, and inspire them to brave the crossing of existing borders, thus contributing to a number of spectacular discoveries in various fields of science,” said prof. Tadeusz Słomka, University of Science and Technology. (rg)
Source: PAP, TVN24, Gazeta Krakowska