High-Performance Computing and other advanced ICT services are prerequisites for researchers and innovators to stay competitive. The Cyprus Institute has invested heavily in its HPC infrastructure and serves as the national focal point for HPC-based research in Cyprus.
Through our new unified access policy, we aim to empower a diverse community by providing reliable and streamlined access to impactful projects across all scientific and industrial sectors.
Our storage and compute infrastructures are constantly updated and upgraded to keep up with the exponential increase of data generation from sensors, labs, machine learning models, and large-scale simulations.
The services provided by the facility include access to HPC resources with expert user support, Cloud infrastructure, and Data Storage solutions. The HPCF has also become the "de jure" focal point for supercomputing in the country through its recognition as the National HPC Competence Centre (EuroCC).
Our flagship national supercomputer, Cyclone, is a powerful hybrid system featuring both GPU-accelerated and CPU-only compute nodes, providing significant computational power for a wide range of scientific domains. It is complemented by a multi-petabyte storage infrastructure and a private cloud system for flexible service deployment.
Since the deployment of our first systems in 2011, the Facility has grown to serve hundreds of projects from across the region, having a major impact as the first open-access supercomputing facility in the Eastern Mediterranean.
We work closely under formal agreements with world-class supercomputing centers like the NCSA (USA) and the Juelich Supercomputing Centre (Germany) for knowledge exchange and joint research. We also serve critical national needs, such as providing the computational capacity for the daily weather forecast for the Cyprus Department of Meteorology.