Sofia Tech Park has officially announced the successful upgrade of the Bulgarian petascale supercomputer Discoverer, which is part of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). The upgrade of the machine, called Discoverer+, includes the installation of 4 new servers with 32 NVIDIA GPU chips to improve its overall performance. The data storage capacity has also been increased to enable the high-performance system to meet changing computing requirements. The machines themselves are from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Discoverer has also received additional UPS systems.
Discoverer+ has a new class of functionalities, graphics processors, and memory, and its performance has been significantly increased, Sofia Tech Park explains. The machine is now specialized for training neural networks, working with large language models, artificial intelligence, creating digital twins, machine learning, and other intensive computing tasks.
The project is the result of cooperation between the Bulgarian consortium Petascale Supercomputer Bulgaria and EuroHPC JU, in partnership with the technology companies A1 Bulgaria, Eviden, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NVIDIA.
So far, Discoverer has participated in more than 80 projects and actively supports the scientific and business community in Bulgaria and Europe. The upgrade of the machine confirms Bulgaria's role as a reliable partner in building a competitive and innovative European infrastructure for high-performance computing, Sofia Tech Park Chairman Petar Statev announced.
"The supercomputer not only puts us on the map of the European high-performance infrastructure, but also positions us as a significant participant in the development of artificial intelligence. I am convinced that Bulgarian scientific organizations and universities will improve their results in scientific research precisely thanks to this infrastructure," said the Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev.
According to Petar Statev, Discoverer is currently working at almost 100% capacity, and the system is among the most efficient in the EuroHPC network. "These are the real needs of both business and researchers, of applied scientific research", he added.
In mid-March, it became clear that one of the six new artificial intelligence (AI) factories of the European Union will be located in Bulgaria. The project is worth 90 million euros, and the Bulgarian state is also participating as a financing party. The project is called BRAIN++ and will be implemented jointly by Sofia Tech Park and the Institute for Computer Technologies and Artificial Intelligence (INSAIT). One of its components will be the advanced Discoverer++ supercomputer, optimized with artificial intelligence systems.
Sofia Tech Park has officially announced the successful upgrade of the Bulgarian petascale supercomputer Discoverer, which is part of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU). The upgrade of the machine, called Discoverer+, includes the installation of 4 new servers with 32 NVIDIA GPU chips to improve its overall performance. The data storage capacity has also been increased to enable the high-performance system to meet changing computing requirements. The machines themselves are from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Discoverer has also received additional UPS systems.
Discoverer+ has a new class of functionalities, graphics processors, and memory, and its performance has been significantly increased, Sofia Tech Park explains. The machine is now specialized for training neural networks, working with large language models, artificial intelligence, creating digital twins, machine learning, and other intensive computing tasks.
