Once the 40th most powerful supercomputer in the world computed its last computational task on Monday, 13th December. Six years after its commissioning, the era of the second supercomputer in Ostrava - the Salomon supercomputer - has come to an end.
A total of 8,700,000 computational tasks across 1,085 research projects and an incredible 1,014 million core hours of computing time. This is the score of the Salomon supercomputer, which was launched at IT4Innovations in the summer of 2015. With a performance of 2 PFlop/s, it was immediately included in the TOP500 list, which ranks the world's most powerful supercomputers. It stayed there until November 2020, falling from the 40th place to 460th.
The ranking shows how fast technology is moving forward, not excluding supercomputers. Salomon lagged behind the newer supercomputers, and its operation was quite energy intensive compared to the newcomers. Further calculations await the newer Ostrava supercomputers - Barbora, the NVIDIA-DGX 2 specialised system for artificial intelligence calculations, and finally the most powerful Czech supercomputer - Karolina. Salomon's successors will continue to perform demanding calculations in the fields of materials science, computational chemistry, life sciences, engineering, and many others.
Photos in the gallery are taken from the installation in 2015.
