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The performance of 50,000 laptops in one supercomputer – Hungary’s most powerful supercomputer the Komondor has arrived. With a performance of 5 petaflops, the newest and most powerful supercomputer of our country, Komondor, debuts in the ranking of the world's TOP 500 supercomputers. The system operated by the Governmental Information Technology Development Agency (KIFÜ) will soon be available to users after the tests.

"We cannot live without supercomputers" - interview with Bendegúz Tamás Nyári, HPC scholarship PhD student Bendegúz Nyári is a doctoral student at the Department of Theoretical Physics at the BME Faculty of Science. As a theoretical physicist he is dealing with the ab initio simulation of the electronic structure of solids.

“… supercomputer the new window to the cognition to the world” interview with Kornél Kapás, HPC scholarship PhD student Kornél Kapás, one of the winners of the 2022 HPC Scholarship, deals with theoretical particle physics. In our interview, Kornél talks about how HPC has opened new horizons in his work.

“... you can find the way to using HPC with ever-growing efficiency.” – interview with Gábor Dániel Balogh, PhD student with HPC Grant. Gábor Dániel Balogh is an engineering IT specialist, currently at the “Pázmány Péter” Catholic University, and a student of the “Roska Tamás” PhD School of Technical and Natural Sciences. During his research he focused on parallelisation.

“It is much easier with HPC – the world has opened up and we can run a huge number of simulations.” – interview with Zsófia Sarkadi, PhD Student with an HPC Grant In the first part of our interview series, meet Zsófia Sarkadi. Zsófia is preparing for chemical doctorate at the PhD School of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences of the University of Pannonia and takes us on a journey into the world of nanopores. HPC opens up new horizons in her research.

"... THANKS TO THE SUPERCOMPUTER, THE ENGINEERING WORKFLOW ITSELF IS CHANGING." – EUROIL INTERVIEW EUROIL has recently got acquainted with the supercomputing technology, but they have already run two pilots on the infrastructure of KIFÜ. In our interview, you can find out what challenges they had to deal with and what kind of HPC use they envision in the future.

HPC Portrait- Bálint Gyires-Tóth Our deep learning expert Bálint Gyires-Tóth talks about how he came into contact with HPC and what opportunities he sees in the infrastructure of the soon-to-be-coming Komondor. How not to waste a shot? What is the main task of the Competence Centre? Find out in our interview!

LUMI, Europe’s most powerful supercomputer inaugurated Europe's fastest supercomputer was handed over in a ceremony in Kajaani, Finland. LUMI was immediately able to stand on the bottom step of the TOP500 list. Are you curious about what else the first delivered pre-exacale EuroHPC supermachine is notable for?