Meeting with representatives of Distributed System of Scientific Collections – BG (DiSSCo – BG)

Today, March 1, 2021, a second meeting between the team of IICT’s Center for High-Performance Computing and representatives of the Bulgarian consortium DiSSCo – BG (https://www.dissco.eu/bg/) was held in the IICT-BAS premises. During the meeting, a demonstration of HPC services and data repositories was done and the provision of the specific HPC services for biodiversity…

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EC funded NI4OS-Europe project contributes to the vision of the European Open Science Cloud, delivering its first integrated resources on its platform

HORIZON2002 NI4OS-Europe project brings scientific communities one step closer to the Open Science Cloud and Open Innovation vision, with the on-boarding of 19 new services to its digital service catalogue. NI4OS-Europe – National Initiatives for Open Science in Europe, is a key contributor to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), an integrated, interoperable digital environment…

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NI4OS National Dissemination Event in Bulgaria, 20 November, 2020

National Initiatives for Open Science in Europe – NI4OS-Europe, aims to be a core contributor to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) service portfolio, commit to EOSC governance and ensure inclusiveness on the European level for enabling global Open Science through supporting the establishment of the National Open Science Initiatives in the participating countries, promoting…

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International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis – SC’20, Virtual Conference, 16-20 November 2020

HPC is the underpinning for many of today’s most exciting new research areas, from machine learning to artificial intelligence to quantum computing. Working with science teams across disciplines, we are finding new ways to fight disease, combat poverty and homelessness, grow heartier crops, and better predict natural disasters. The conference will be broadcast in Eastern…

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The Horizon2020 project EuroCC for building the HPC Competence Centers in 33 European countres was launched on 1 of September 2020

The EuroCC project under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program, was launched on 1 September 2020 with the aim of building a European network of 33 national high performance computing (HPC) centers. Each of the 33 centers, part of the EuroCC network, will act at national level to map existing HPC and related competences, analyze…

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The new ranking of the most powerful supercomputers

The new ranking of the most powerful supercomputers in the world was published on June 22 (https://top500.org/lists/top500/2020/06/). The first place is taken by the Japanese supercomputer Fugaku, located at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Japan. Fugaku has 7,299,072 processor cores and performs 415.5 quadrillion operations per second. Top 3 is complemented by the…

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