The Amalka Supercomputing facility is the largest of the three Czech parallel supercomputers. It is used by Department of Space Physics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics,

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic The Czech Academy of Sciences (abbr. CAS, cs, Akademie věd České republiky, abbr. AV ČR) was established in 1992 by the Czech National Council as the Czech successor of the former Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and its tradition goes back ...

. The primary task is computation and visualisation in the area of space research for the

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, such as a preparation of

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launch. Amalka Supercomputing facility is credited with computing the first kinetic magnetic field model of

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in the MESSENGER project. It also helped to understand the results from the Cluster II mission. At present, the facility is supporting the

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(Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) project. The results will be useful in planning for creating permanent human bases on Moon that will be protected from

solar wind The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun, called the corona. This plasma mostly consists of electrons, protons and alpha particles with kinetic energy between . The composition of the sola ...

. The current version runs

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and delivers 6.38 TFlops. Expansion and optimization of the infrastructure is being implemented by Sprinx Systems.

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I am Amálka, the most powerful supercomputer in the Czech Republic (Czech)
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