Great Service from TUBITAK to Our Researchers!
MareNostrum 5, one of the world's most advanced supercomputers in which Turkey is a partner, was inaugurated on 21 December 2023 with the participation of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. MareNostrum 5, which is equivalent to the total capacity of approximately 380,000 laptops in the medium and high segment at the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre (BSC-CNS), has a total performance of 314 petaflops, that is, the processing power in 1 second is very high.
Ranked 8th in the world
Under the EuroHPC Joint Initiative, of which Turkey has been a member since 2019, consisting of the European Union, European countries and other partners, different countries have established consortiums and made major investments to have the strongest supercomputing infrastructures and ecosystem in Europe. MareNostrum 5, a supercomputer established as part of EuroHPC at the Barcelona Supercomputer Centre in Spain, is operated by a consortium of Spain, Turkey and Portugal and has achieved great success by ranking 8th in the world in the Top 500 ranking in November.
Enabling new scientific breakthroughs
MareNostrum 5 will provide access to state-of-the-art HPC (High Performance Computing) infrastructure and services to the scientists and industry of the member countries with a general purpose computing cluster as well as a graphics processor supported accelerator cluster.
MareNostrum 5 is a supercomputer with capabilities that will enable new scientific breakthroughs in studies such as drug and vaccine development, virus spread simulations, artificial intelligence and big data applications, as well as global problems such as climate change and renewable energy.
Turkey has been a member of the EuroHPC Joint Venture since 2019
TUBITAK ULAKBIM represents Turkey in MareNostrum 5 consortium under the leadership of the Ministry of Industry and Technology.
Turkey joined the EuroHPC Joint Venture on 2 April 2019 as the 28th member country. Following Turkey's participation in the initiative, a joint proposal was submitted by Turkey, Spain and Portugal to the "Precursors to Exascale" call and this proposal was accepted at the board of directors meeting held in Luxembourg on 4-5 June 2019.
With the accepted proposal, Turkey gained direct access to one of the world's leading supercomputers in addition to the TRUBA supercomputer service that has been provided by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM for twenty years. The system is expected to be open for general use in February 2024
TUBITAK Vice President İsmail Doğan and TUBITAK ULAKBIM Director Mehmet Mirat Satoğlu attended the opening ceremony of MareNostrum 5 on behalf of Turkey.
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