19.10.2023
It is important to maintain ever better cooperation between the research institutes in Bulgaria, so that colleagues can work together, that their expertise is complemented and that in this way, Bulgaria may stand stronger on the European and the world map in the field of technology. This was stated by Prime Minister Acad. Nikolai Denkov at the launch of the Infrastructure Complex for Digital Transformation and High-Performance Computing at the Center of Excellence in Informatics and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). It complements the activities of the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) and the BiG DAta for SmarT SociEty (GATE) Institute, with the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski”.
Each of the three research centers possesses prominent top-level specific expertise. “This potential is to develop and find application for the benefit of the businesses and of the life of people in Bulgaria,” the Prime Minister said.
The good remuneration of the researchers is as important as is the construction of the infrastructure and its technology equipment. “In the coming period we will work to ensure that the existing facilities are supported with higher salaries for both novice researchers and researchers with longer experience,” Acad. Nikolai Denkov said. Thus, it will be possible to improve the capacity of researchers and pave the way to the next generation to come and continue and built on the legacy of today’s professors.
The BAS Infrastructure Complex houses the new Hemus supercomputer with nearly 100,000 cores and performance of over 3 PetaFlops (with a speed of more than 3 х 1015 floating-point operations per second), a data storage system, local application development centers and a 3D digitalization and microstructural analysis laboratory. “It will facilitate the work of hundreds of Bulgarian researchers and make them competitive with homologues from abroad in the use of such large-scale high-performance equipment,” the BAS President Acad. Julian Revalski noted.
