Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH Launches Poland's Fastest Supercomputer Built By Hpe
HPE News, Thursday, April 25th, 2024
Cyfronet's new Helios supercomputer will advance AI-driven scientific research in astronomy, medicine, and climate protection with higher performance and greater energy efficiency
Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced that it built a new supercomputer for the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet of the AGH University of Krakow, making it Poland's fastest system1. The new system, called Helios, is Cyfronet's fifth-generation supercomputer and will be used to advance AI-driven scientific research and innovative commercial applications.
The Helios system is based on the HPE Cray EX supercomputer and features three partitions: the first dedicated to traditional computational scientific research; the second purpose-built with NVIDIA GPUs to support AI applications and AI-driven research; and the third to support interactive workloads that involve big data processing.