The main objective of a supercomputer currently under
development in NCBJ Świerk is to assist Polish power generation industry.
Computing power of the supercomputer is soon going to increase many times.
Tender proceedings aimed to purchase processors of a computing power comparable
to combined power of about 20 thousand PCs have just got off the ground. No
computing centre in the country has got similar power at their disposal.
NCBJ has just initiated a series of tender proceedings for
delivery of a computing hardware of total capacity on the order of 500 TFLOPS
i.e. 500 billion floating point operations per second. Computer cluster in NCBJ
currently under development within the Świerk Computing Centre (CIS) project is
going to be a sole in Poland computer facility of a similar power and within 60
most powerful supercomputers in the world.