The University of Évora inaugurated “Oblivion”, a supercomputer installed in partnership with the ENGAGE SKA research consortium.
The inauguration of “Oblivion” took place on February 4th, at the University of Évora, in a ceremony attended by the member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Science and Technology, Nuno Feixa Rodrigues.
This is an initiative that results from the partnership between the University of Évora and the ENGAGE SKA Consortium – an organization that includes seven Portuguese institutions (Aveiro Telecommunications Institute, the universities of Évora, Aveiro, Porto and Coimbra, the Polytechnic Institute of Beja and the RAEGE Açores Association).
Oblivion is capable of performing 239 million operations per second and processing data volumes in the order of PetaBytes (PB). This capacity will now be available not only to ENGAGE SKA (Enabling Green E-Science for the SKA Research Infrastructure), but also to the scientific community and businesses through the National Advanced Computing Network.
The ENGAGE-SKA consortium has four million euros of funding allocated by the FCT, through the COMPETE 2020 Program and is intended to become part of the National Advanced Computing Network, RNCA, managed by the FCCN Unit of the Foundation for Science and Technology.
