Announcement
Hungary’s most powerful supercomputer was handed over on Friday in Debrecen: equipment called Komondor was put into operation at the Kassai út campus of the University of Debrecen (Germany), in the supercomputing center of the State Agency for the Development of Information Technology (KIFÜ).
Endre Spaller, president of KIFÜ, said at the handover: the supercomputer costs 4.7 billion forints, its performance is five petaflops, which corresponds to the performance of 50,000 laptops per minute.
A supercomputer with enormous computing power, i.e. the High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure, is currently indispensable both in scientific life and in the development of innovative industrial solutions.
Three-quarters of the equipment located in Debrecen will be used by researchers throughout the country, but 20-25 percent will also be available for business, he said.
He added that every day he helps solve problems such as climate research, telecommunications, transportation, energy, healthcare, materials science, astrology or the automotive industry.
Spaller Endre indicated that Komondor could be expanded so that it could meet additional user needs in the future.
Zoltan Bach, rector of the University of Debrecen, recalled that the first supercomputer with much lower performance was put into operation at the university in 2011, when seventy researchers began working on the equipment.
Today, more than a hundred researchers use the supercomputer just at their university, which is run by DE, but it serves the scientific infrastructure of the entire country, he added, noting that the building and infrastructure to house the Komondor was designed in such a way that it could be expanded in future equipment.
Laszlo Papp (Fidesz-KDNP), mayor of Debrecen, stressed that in addition to science and economy, Komondor is also important for the city from an energy point of view.
In the future, the heat generated by the supercomputer will be used to heat a sports pool in Debrecen. The necessary infrastructure is now being built to get rid of district heating, the mayor added.
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