‘Discoverer’—a world-class peta-scale supercomputer capable of executing 4.5 billion operations every second—was inaugurated by EU and Bulgarian government officials in the Eastern European country’s capital city, Sofia.
Made possible thanks to funding worth more than €11 million from the EU and the Bulgarian state, Discoverer is designed to be part of a continent-wide supercomputer network that can be used to accelerate research across a variety of sectors.
“Bulgaria can foster research and be better integrated in pan-European innovation ecosystems. It will stimulate highly data-intensive research in such areas as medicine, industry or security,” said Mariya Gabriel, the EU commissioner in charge of research and innovation policies.
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking – the EU initiative behind the project – lists the discovery of new drugs, better understanding of molecular interactions and climate or seismic simulations among...