“Tirant” is one of the top 500 most powerful computers in the world and the seventh largest integrated into the Spanish Supercomputing network. The super computer has the scientific power equivalent of 512 conventional computers. Although its size is not spectacular, the calculations it can perform are immense and now researchers have a tool to work on finding solutions to problems that are impossible calculate with an ordinary computer. The Tirant is installed on the campus of Burjassot, where IDAL is also located, and will be used for the study of proteins, drug design; DNA; climate change and more. General secretary of Science and Technology, Francis Marcellán, explained that the capability of the computer not only offers benefits to the world of science, “but is an investment in society.” The supercomputer installed at the University of Valencia cost 1.2 billion euros.
