The most powerful supercomputer in the Czech Republic will be called Karolina

The most powerful supercomputer in the Czech Republic, whose installation began at the National Supercomputer Center IT4Innovations at the VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava (VŠB-TUO), will be called Karolina. The jury chose the name from more than 5,000 entries submitted to the competition. The supercomputer will be operational in the first half of the year. IT4Innovations spokeswoman Zuzana Červenková told ČTK today.

The Karolina supercomputer will achieve peak output of 15.2 petaflops (floating point operations per second) per second. This compares to the performance of more than 100,000 laptops, and is seven times more powerful than the most powerful supercomputer in IT4Innovations Salomon yet. "It will thus become the most powerful supercomputer in the Czech Republic with the ambition to be ranked tenth in Europe and 50th in the world," said Červenková.

The unique computing system will serve science, industry and society until 2025. The supercomputer will cost EUR 14.86 million and will be among the five so-called EuroHPC petascale supercomputers acquired within the pan-European joint venture EuroHPC JU. Its acquisition will be financed through EuroHPC JU and European subsidies.