SGI and IT4Innovations Announce a TOP 500 Supercomputer in Europe Salomon

“Thanks to VSB’s supercomputers the center has put the Moravian Silesian region on the world map of research centers. It has attracted experts from abroad into the region and strengthened cooperation with Czech and foreign research institutions ," said Ivo Vondrák r ector, Technical University of Ostrava . "Our first supercomputer Anselm no longer provided the compute power for the high quality scientific projects we conduct. As a result, we have eagerly awaited the launch of the Salomon supercomputer."

With a theoretical computing performance of two petaflops, the new Salomon supercomputer exceeds the previous supercomputer, Anselm, by more than 20 times. Based on th e SGI ® ICE™ X system and with the latest Intel® Xeon® processors and Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors, it is the most powerful supercomputer in Europe running on the Xeon Phi ® coprocessors.

"With the launch of the Salomon supercomputer, the 14th most powerful in Europe, the Czech Republic now ranks among the supercomputing elite. The scientific community in the Czech Republic gained a premium scientific tool and I believe that in the medium and long term it will benefit not only the research community but also the industry and the Czech economy, "said Martin Palkovič, director of the IT4Innovations national supercomputing center .

Salomon supercomputer supports a variety of resea rch projects in many fields, including cosmology, astronomy, engineering and structural mechanics of liquids, geophysics, climatology, molecular modeling, plasma and particle physics, computer science and applied mathematics.
"The availability of supercomputing promotes innovation and economic growth,” said Gabriel Broner, vice president and general manager, High Performance Computing Business Unit, SGI. “SGI is pleased to enable the IT4Innovations national supercomputing center to deploy one of the large st production supercomputers in Europe, which will benefit the scientific community, industry and economy in the Czech Republic.”

Technical parameters of the SGI ICE X supercomputer
- Theoretical computing power of 2 petaflops,
- 24,192 CPU cores of Intel® X eon™ E5 2680 v3 with 129 terabytes (TBs) of RAM,
- 52,704 cores acceleration coprocessors of Intel® Xeon™ Phi 7120P with 13.8 TB of RAM,
- Two petabytes (PB) disk capacity and three PB backup tape capacity.

About IT4Innovations national supercomputing center
IT4Innovations n ational supercomputing center carries out research mainly in the fields of supercomputing and embedded computing systems. It operates the most advanced technologies and services in this area and makes them available to Czech and foreign re search teams from both academia and industry. Since its inception, it is part of an international network of PRACE supercomputing centers. The Cen ter operates two supercomputers Anselm and Salomon. The Salomon supercomputer was put into the operation in July and is the 40 th most powerful supercomputer in the world.

IT4Innovations is financed through the project of Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovation, 85
percent funded by the European Union and 15 percent from the state budget of the Czech Republic. Project partners
are VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, University of Ostrava, Silesian University in Opava, Institute of Geonics of the
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Brno University of Technology.

About SGI
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