A new member of Ghent University makes an entrance: welcome to supercomputer Hortense!

Supercomputer Hortense 2
Supercomputer Hortense 2

Boasting a RAM memory of almost 100 TB, a top performance reaching 3.3 petaflops, ... Hortense has quite a list of accolades. From 2021 you will also be able to count on her amazing powers of calculation for your own research.

The new Tier1 supercomputer from VSC, the Flemish Supercomputer Centre, will be accommodated in the data centre on the Sterre campus at Ghent University as from the end of 2020. We are naturally really proud of this fact. After all, it will be the new ’superbrain’ of our Flemish universities, and a prestige project of the highest level. The HPC Ghent University team at DICT will take charge of its management and maintenance. ...

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