HPC RIVR

Upgrading national research infrastructures – HPC RIVR is a project aimed at establishing a national supercomputing centre with the principal objective of strengthening national high performance computing capacities for the needs of Slovenian research and innovation as well as economic area. The project is funded by the European Union from the European Regional Development Fund and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport within the framework of the Operational Programme for the Implementation of the European Cohesion Policy in the period 2014–2020. The project implementation will significantly contribute to the fulfilment of the objectives of the Declaration for cooperation in the field of high performance computing (EuroHPC Joint Undertaking). The acquisition and operation of the EuroHPC supercomputer is funded jointly by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, through the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility and the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, as well as the Participating State Slovenia. By signing the Declaration, Slovenia has committed itself to establish an integrated and accessible high performance infrastructure.

Together with the Slovenian Academic and Research Network (ARNES), IZUM engaged the Slovenian HPC and HPDA community in the Slovenian National Supercomputing Network SLING. As a part of the HPC RIVR project and in cooperation with the Faculty of Information Science Novo mesto, IZUM became the main host site for the new peta-scale machine in Slovenia with the University of Maribor acting as coordinator.