THE BULGARIAN SUPERCOMPUTER DISCOVERER WILL BE AWARDED

The Bulgarian supercomputer Discoverer is to be awarded to enhance its capabilities and provide new, specialized services related to artificial intelligence.

Discoverer is a petascale supercomputer with 4.5 petaflops of computing power and 6 petaflops of peak performance. It is located in Sofia Tech Park and is part of the world’s top-ranked high-performance machines.

The upgrade of the supercomputer will increase its power and performance and add new features that will support user needs. This will open the door to new customers involved in training artificial intelligence. In addition, with its newly acquired capabilities, the machine will significantly benefit the development of science and the development of applications of societal importance for Europe.

The new components to be added to Discoverer are:

• • GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) – improves performance
  • Long Term Storage and Flash Storage – long-term data storage
  • Improving UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) components – increasing the fault tolerance of the supercomputer

Discoverer is the first supercomputer to be awarded by the European Union since its creation in 2021.