In late October 2021, Discoverer, the new petascale supercomputer of EuroHPC became operational in Bulgaria. This is the third supercomputer that will serve European research and innovation thereby increasing the competitive potential of the region.

In our second interview, Dr. Milán Szőri, Associate Professor of the University of Miskolc gives an outline of how he makes use of the advantages of supercomputing in his scientific career. He uncovered why it may be the case that a supercomputer never lies. Get to know our expert!

From our interview series, you may get to know the external experts of the HPC Competence Centre. In the first interview, Dr. Tamás Hegedűs, a bioinformatician, will talk about his encounter with the fascinating world of supercomputing and how this has become a part of his everyday life.

EHPCSW is one of the largest European conferences on supercomputing, which will be held from 22 to 24 March 2022 in Paris, France. As in previous years, PRACE co-locates its Scientific and Industrial Conference at the EuroHPC Summit Week 2022.

The website top500.org has been publishing updated lists of the most powerful supercomputers twice a year since 1993. The top of the list published in the summer of 2021 – surprisingly – showed no change in comparison with November 2020. But which countries ended up as winners? Read our summary!

HPC Echo, the annual publication of KIFU’s HPC Competence Centre, was published for the first time in June 2021. This publication informs the reader about the most prominent research projects of the preceding year, and also presents interesting data regarding HPC uses.

The procurement procedure of Komondor has been successfully completed, and the supercomputer is expected to become available for the users in the spring of 2022. It is expected to arrive already at the end of 2021. Our Supercomputer Centre needs to be prepared for accommodating the new infrastructure.

NVIDIA presented a spectacular simulation built upon the achievements of the folding@home initiative. The interactive molecular dynamics presentation shows the transformation of the spike protein present on the surface of COVID-19, as it moves from the “closed” state into the “open” state.