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Sofia, June 10 (BTA) - The supercomputer Discoverer, located in
Sofia Tech Park and part of the European High-performance
Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC), has achieved and
surpassed its planned computing capacity and performance during
test runs by the vendor, Atos, in the past week, sources from
Sofia Tech Park said on Thursday.

Working at full load, Discoverer achieved performance of 4,518
Petaflops, higher than the sustained performance of 4,44
Petaflops or 4,44 million billion calculations per second. At
peak performance, the supercomputer achieved 6,006.37 Petaflops,
 exceeding the planned peak performance of 6 Petaflops.

Peter Statev, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Sofia
Tech Park and also Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the
consortium Petascale Supercomputer Bulgaria, the contractor of
the supercomputer project in Bulgaria, said that the test runs
give assurance that the computer can be listed in the Top 500
HPC global rankings.

The project is co-funded by Bulgaria and the European High
Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). EuroHPC JU
 is a joint initiative between the EU, European countries and
private partners to develop a World Class Supercomputing
Ecosystem in Europe.

Discoverer will support the development of leading scientific,
public sector and industrial applications in many domains,
including bioinformatics, pharmacy, molecular dynamics and
mechanics, quantum chemistry and biochemistry, artificial
intelligence, personalized medicine, bio-engineering, weather
forecasting and fight against climate change.

The Bulgaria-based computing system will be complemented by four
 additional EuroHPC petascale supercomputers to be built in
Luxembourg, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Portugal, and three
 EuroHPC pre-exascale supercomputers located in Finland, Italy
and Spain. NV/ZH

Source: Sofia