Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır made important statements regarding Turkey’s supercomputing infrastructure. Minister Kacır emphasized that the country’s computing power has reached a new level thanks to local systems like TRUBA and ARF, as well as international collaborations. These developments are providing significant impetus to innovative projects in areas such as artificial intelligence and big data.

How is Turkey’s supercomputing infrastructure developing?

Minister Kacır highlighted the importance of the ARF Supercomputer, which is growing in integration with TRUBA (Turkish National Science e-Infrastructure). Furthermore, Turkey has joined the EU MareNostrum 5 Consortium, thus benefiting from the high-performance computing power of the Barcelona-based system. Thanks to this integrated structure, R&D activities are carried out more quickly and efficiently.

The TRUBA-ARF infrastructure stands out with its more than 80,000 processor cores and 504 GPUs. It also offers a massive data storage capacity of 14 petabytes. This powerful hardware is fully available to universities, public institutions, and the private sector. This creates a significant platform for strategic research.

Thanks to the MareNostrum 5 infrastructure, Turkey is also increasing its computing power in the international arena. This provides access to over 70,000 processor cores and 446 GPUs. Minister Kacır stated that these critical infrastructures take Turkey’s science and technology production capacity to a new level.

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