Students of the Computing and Informatics and Computing programmes visited the Institute of Information Science (IZUM) in Maribor for a presentation of the VEGA supercomputer. IZUM is a public institute founded by the Government of Slovenia to provide information services in science, culture and education; its core activity is the development and maintenance of COBISS, Slovenia's fundamental library information system, which also connects libraries in other countries through the COBISS.net network.
During the visit students learned about VEGA, designed as a key part of the HPC RIVR project to upgrade Slovenian research infrastructure. VEGA was one of the first systems delivered under the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and significantly increased the computing capacity of Slovenia and the European Union.
The supercomputer enables researchers and experts from the public and private sectors to run demanding computations and contributes to innovation in strategic areas such as artificial intelligence, high-performance data analytics, personalised medicine, bioengineering, climate change and the development of new drugs and materials.
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Source: Academia (17. 10. 2025). Fotografije: arhiv Academie.
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