Athena supercomputer
Athena achieves a theoretical computing power of over 7.7 PFlops. Until the installation of Helios, it was the fastest supercomputer in Poland.
Athena provides the Polish scientific community and economy with computing resources based on processors and GPGPU accelerators, along with the necessary data storage subsystem based on very fast flash memory. Athena's configuration includes: 48 servers with AMD EPYC processors and 1 TB of RAM (a total of 6144 CPU computing cores) and 384 NVIDIA A100 GPGPU cards.
An essential element enabling the effective use of such significant computing power is the provision of a high-performance internal network of the supercomputer (Infiniband HDR with a bandwidth of 4 x 200 Gb/s per server) and a very fast disk subsystem. It is built on open Lustre software and dedicated disk servers equipped with NVMe standard flash memory.
Athena's architecture meets the needs of Cyfronet supercomputer users, who use the computing infrastructure for both standard high-performance scientific simulations (HPC) and for applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods in research in medicine, pharmacology, biology, chemistry, physics, and many other fields of science.
Athena's computing power for AI calculations is nearly 240 PFlops.
The computing resources of ACC Cyfronet AGH are part of the PLGrid infrastructure (http://www.plgrid.pl/). An access account to the PLGrid infrastructure can be obtained by registering in the PLGrid Portal (https://portal.plgrid.pl/).
The architecture of Athena meets the needs of users of Cyfronet supercomputers, who use the computing infrastructure both to perform standard high-performance scientific simulations (HPC) and to apply artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) methods in order to conduct research in the field of medicine, pharmacology, biology, chemistry, physics and many other fields of science.
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