The National Center for Supercomputing Applications () is a research institution located in

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. It was established in 2008 with the aim of promoting and regulating high-performance processing operations of scientific information. The NCSA works in affiliation with scientists and researchers from the

Sofia University Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" () is a public university, public research university in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the oldest institution of higher education in Bulgaria. Founded on 1 October 1888, the edifice of the university was constr ...

, the

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, the

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and

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universities in Sofia, as well as other organizations. The center is under the jurisdiction of the State Agency for Information Technology and Communications (SAITC). When established, the center operated the only

supercomputer A supercomputer is a type of computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instruc ...

in the Balkan region, an IBM Blue Gene/P, which was among the most powerful supercomputers in the world according to

TOP500 The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computing, distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these ...

until November 2009. It has two racks with 2,048 850 MHz processors with 8,192 cores. The system is to be upgraded with additional I/O nodes and disk space in the near future. The supercomputer was switched off in 2015.

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* Institutes of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Information technology in Bulgaria Supercomputer sites Sofia University {{Bulgaria-stub