Six years after it’s first release, the supercomputer “Finisterrae”, the brainchild of the Centro de Supercomputación de Galicia (CESGA), will be upgraded in 2014 to join the ranks of the European elite of calculus and operational supercomputing machines alike.
It’s first release was in 2007, in which “Finisterrae” was at the Top 100 of the largest supercomputers worldwide. Even today, Finisterrae is showing signs of a consistently high level of performance. An average of 500 scientists and researchers use Finisterrae on a daily basis.
“Finisterrae” has helped out deciphering the human genome and has been carrying out complex weather, ocean and climate prediction models for Meteogalicia. Likewise , Finisterrae has been an essential part of the engine to research and develop calculations on the foundations of the Higgs boson or particle.
CESGA Managing Director , Javier García Tobío, has revealed to GCiencia the ins and outs about the upgrading of “Finisterrae” and the state-of-the-art- computing headquarters, located in Santiago de Compostela. This Galician facility is on the cutting edge of the world’s top computing science.
