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Technology
Climate Change Threatens Supercomputers
Climate change is beginning to have an enormously negative effect on technology. Intense heat waves, wildfires and droughts are becoming increasingly common and supercomputers have now apparently become part of the collateral damage.
The California wildfire in 2018, also known...
Science
Mathematicians Find ‘Seemingly Impossible’ Number
Mathematicians, equipped with powerful supercomputers, have achieved a significant breakthrough by determining the value of an immensely large number that was once considered impossible to calculate.
This particular number is referred to as the "ninth Dedekind number" or D(9), and...
Greek News
Greece to Host Next-Generation European Supercomputers
Greece is one of five locations for the next generation of European supercomputers, as announced by the European High Performance Computing (EuroHPC) Joint Undertaking on Wednesday.
The five selected sites do not include Germany, which will host the first European...
Europe
Greek Students Awarded First Place in Supercomputer Program
The EPCC team of the University of Edinburgh has been awarded first place for the application HPL (High Performance Linpak), used mainly in supercomputers, in the ISC Student Cluster Competition.
The team consists of three Greek students, Emmanuel Farsarakis from Crete, Konstantinos Mouzakitis from...