About Us

Empowering Research and Innovation


High-performance computing and AI-ready infrastructure are now prerequisites for every research lab and innovation team. The Cyprus Institute has built a national facility that combines large-scale simulation capacity with modern AI acceleration, ensuring Cypriot researchers stay competitive and sovereign.

Through our unified open-access policy, we empower a diverse community by providing reliable, streamlined access across scientific and industrial sectors. Teams can prototype, fine-tune, and scale workloads locally before moving to EuroHPC-class systems.

Our storage, compute, and AI services are constantly refreshed to keep pace with accelerating data generation. From sensors and labs to machine learning models and weather simulations, we provide the sovereign environment needed to build, iterate, and deploy.

Cyprus Edge-AI Hub

Cyprus Edge-AI Hub

Aphroditi is part of the Cyprus Edge-AI Hub initiative, strengthening Cyprus with a national platform for AI development, fine-tuning, and model training.

It complements our supercomputing services and gives research and innovation teams a reliable local environment before scaling workloads to larger European systems.

Our Role and Infrastructure

Our facility blends supercomputing, AI acceleration, sovereign data storage, and expert user support into a single national entry point. Recognized as the National HPC Competence Centre (EuroCC), we provide production-scale compute, rapid prototyping environments, and seamless pathways to European resources.

Cyclone anchors our open-access services for large-scale simulations, while our newer AI platforms deliver the memory-rich environment needed for foundation models and fine-tuning. Everything is tied together with multi-petabyte storage, high-speed interconnects, and private cloud services so users can move from exploration to production without friction.

Our History and Collaborations

Since launching the first open-access supercomputing facility in the Eastern Mediterranean in 2011, we have supported hundreds of projects and built deep partnerships across Cyprus and the region.

We co-develop services with leading centres such as NCSA (USA) and Jülich (Germany), partner with KIOS, CYENS, CING, ARI, and EuroCC to expand national capabilities, and operate as the sovereign backbone for public-sector workloads like daily weather forecasting.

HPCF Stats

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Over 4 Petabytes of Storage

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700+ Projects Supported

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Countries Served

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10+ Years in Operation

Our Team

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George Tsouloupas

Head of HPC Facility

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Minas Trattou

HPC Engineer

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Andreas Pharmakas

Junior HPC Engineer

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