Poland’s quickest supercomputer has been unveiled on the Kraków college the place it’s positioned. Among the many company on the ceremony, which came about at the beginning of the brand new tutorial yr, was the town’s archbishop, who blessed the centre the place the pc is housed, and the training minister.
With a theoretical energy of over 7.7 petaFLOPS, the Athena supercomputer on the Educational Laptop Centre Cyfronet of AGH College of Science and Know-how, a public college, is the a hundred and fifth quickest on the planet.
As Cyfronet director Kazimierz Wiatr famous, additionally it is ninth on the Green500 listing of probably the most ecological supercomputers on the planet, which AGH’s earlier supercomputers, Zeus and Prometheus, additionally characteristic on.
Oprócz inauguracji, w #AGH oficjalne uruchomienie naszego superkomputera #Athena. To obecnie najszybszy superkomputer w Polsce, 105 na liście TOP500 oraz 9 na liście Inexperienced 💚🖤❤️ pic.twitter.com/kEEGBkgfG9 — AGH Kraków (@AGH_Krakow) October 4, 2022
Such machines minimize the time required for calculations that may take unusual computer systems tons of of years to finish to a matter of hours or days, stories Gazeta Wyborcza. Athena is for use for normal high-performance computing (HPC) in addition to synthetic intelligence (AI) and machine studying (ML).
Wiatr defined that Athena, which can be utilized at no cost by scientists in Poland, has already accomplished take a look at calculations involving coronavirus and vaccination analysis in addition to duties involving computational medication, similar to a platform supporting scientific diagnostics and baby most cancers therapies.
Throughout his remarks, Wiatr additionally cited Polish Pope John Paul II. “We all know that John Paul II didn’t distance himself from fashionable applied sciences and from dialogue with science. And we’ve little question that on this huge growth of science, and significantly info science, we should bear in mind about values.”
Wiatr’s presentation was adopted by a speech by Marek Jędraszewski, the archbishop of Kraków, who then blessed the Educational Laptop Centre and Athena. The opening of latest infrastructure or different services in Poland is commonly accompanied by a blessing from a Catholic priest.
Jędraszewski referred to the advances of science, citing Galileo and Blaise Pascal, earlier than additionally quoting the previous pope. “The world is all the time revealing ever newer mysteries,” he mentioned . “However we should not neglect concerning the thriller with a big ‘M’ – about God.”
“So long as man stays open to thriller and respects it, there will likely be an opportunity that this may serve man and humankind – it is not going to flip in opposition to him however be a manifestation of the good fascination that the world continues to be for us,” added the archbishop.
🖥Najszybszy komputer w Polsce uruchomiony w AGH Superkomputer Athena został uruchomiony podczas inauguracji roku akademickiego 2022/2023 w @AGH_Krakow. Wojewoda @Lukasz_Kmita🇵🇱 odczytał listing @MorawieckiM skierowany do uczestników wydarzenia. Więcej➡ https://t.co/21MPyYXoqc pic.twitter.com/NTMunJOoDq — Małopolski Urząd Wojewódzki 🇵🇱 (@Malopolski_UW) October 5, 2022
Marek Magryś, Cyfronet’s deputy director for HPC, advised RMF24 that the brand new supercomputer, which value 20 million zloty (€4.15 million) to construct, not together with infrastructure prices, opens new horizons in numerous branches of science.
“Athena’s energy is equal roughly to 40,000 very highly effective dwelling computer systems,” she defined. “However it gives prospects that might not be achieved if we merely put these dwelling computer systems in a single room.”
The inauguration of the 104th tutorial yr at AGH, at the moment ranked as Poland’s joint fourth finest college, was additionally attended by the training minister, Przemysław Czarnek.
In response to considerations voiced by Polish universities – together with AGH – that they may battle to pay rocketing vitality payments, Czarnek claimed that the issue is the results of “the absurd inexperienced coverage imposed by the European Union lately…of the EU’s lunacy”.
Important picture credit score: Michał Maciejewski / Agencja Wyborcza.pl
