Cyprus’s upgraded national supercomputer is expected to go live this month, with the government set to present the new infrastructure at the Presidential Palace on Friday alongside NVIDIA, its key technology partner.
The upgraded system will be housed at the Cyprus Institute, where existing high-performance computing infrastructure already operates, and will be open to researchers, universities, public bodies, and businesses. According to philenews, it will offer significantly expanded capabilities in AI applications, big data analysis, and complex simulations, addressing a gap in domestic computing capacity that state officials had previously flagged.
The project is being developed in partnership with NVIDIA, which is contributing expertise, training, and technical support. Preliminary training sessions and technical discussions with the company and other stakeholders have already taken place.
Friday’s presentation at the Presidential Palace will include remarks from Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy Nikodimos Damianou and Deputy Minister to the President Irene Piki. NVIDIA Vice President Yiannis Iosifakis, who heads sales and business development for HPC and supercomputing, will deliver a talk titled “Cyprus–NVIDIA: From Collaboration to Implementation.” Presentations by Pharos-CY Coordinator Professor Konstantinos Dovrolis and Cyprus Institute Head of Supercomputing and AI Infrastructure Giorgos Tsouloupos will follow, with a panel discussion closing the event.
The supercomputer upgrade sits within a broader effort to position Cyprus on the European AI map, which also includes Pharos-CY — Cyprus’s AI Factory Antenna. Pharos-CY aims to give research institutions, businesses, and public bodies access to specialised infrastructure, data, and technology tools. It is funded jointly by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the Republic of Cyprus through the Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy, and is coordinated by CaSToRC at the Cyprus Institute.
The NVIDIA partnership traces back to President Nikos Christodoulides’s contacts in the United States, where he met senior representatives of several major technology companies including NVIDIA, OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and Oracle. Executives from a number of those companies have since visited Cyprus, with Plug and Play having secured premises in Limassol and Tenstorrent having opened an office on the island.
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