Photo: Pixabay/geraltIn the coming years, Croatia should get a new supercomputer, the investment of which amounts to 50 billion euros. Where are Serbia and Croatia today on the supercomputer map
While Serbia puts into operation "one of the fastest supercomputer", even 33.000 times faster than an ordinary computer, Croatia announces a new supercomputer miracle - the "Pantheon" project worth 50 billion euros, reports HRT.
The new Croatian supercomputer was presented last week and, as reported by the Croatian media, it is a state-of-the-art center, the "Pantheon" project, which will be built in the municipality of Topusko in Sisak-Moslavina County, writes Gradnja.rs.
The investment includes advanced power systems, own water sources and cooling system solutions, as well as a complex network of transmission lines and roads.
More than 50 billion euros will be invested in the construction and equipment of this modern data center.
With the total power of one GW and the availability of work above the highest "Tier four" standard applied in the EU, the center will build its own state-of-the-art substation and 280 kilometers of transmission lines with its strategic partner, the Končar Group. Strategic partner Greenvolt will build a 500 MW photovoltaic power plant exclusively for the needs of the center.
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The start of construction is planned for 2027, and the start of work is scheduled for the beginning of 2029.
Croatia already has a supercomputer. The "Supek" system, named after academician Ivan Supek, was put into operation in Zagreb in 2023. With about 1,25 petaflops of computing power, thousands of processing cores and dozens of GPUs, "Supek" is part of the European research infrastructure and serves universities and institutes, writes Netokracija.
It is not spectacular on a global scale, but it is quite functional - which in this part of the world is often a more important category.
Serbia follows a similar logic, only in a slightly larger format.
The new supercomputer in the state data center in Kragujevac, an upgrade of the system from 2021, reaches around five petaflops, which makes it 33.000 times faster than a classic computer, reports RTS. That is approximately four times more than the Croatian "Supek", with a stronger focus on artificial intelligence and big data processing.
Along the way, it is announced that the data center will be upgraded from the current 14 megawatts to 40 MW in the coming years.
While "Supek" and the Kragujevac system represent evolution - a gradual strengthening of capacity in accordance with needs and possibilities - "Pantheon" is conceived as a leap into a completely different league. Not only technologically, but also energetically and politically: a data center with a power of one gigawatt, with its own infrastructure, which according to some estimates would consume a significant part of the country's total electricity, reports HRT.
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