After 14 years of reliable and problem-free service, the NEMO computing cluster ended its activity in November and went to “silicon heaven”. It was used for numerically demanding calculations, especially in the areas of modelling the earth’s hydromagnetic dynamo, propagation of seismic waves in a complex environment, 3D seismic tomography, seismic source of finite dimensions and nonlinear seismic source, implementation of general optimization and inversion algorithms and also a 3D inversion of magnetotelluric data.
We replaced NEMO by a new, much more powerful and more energy-efficient KRAKONOŠ. Name “Krakonoš” is well known because of Krkonoše Mountain fairy tales. “We wanted to give a name that would have a connection with the Czech Republic and Krakonoš as a lord and a ruler of the highest Czech mountains was certainly a good choice. We wish the new cluster as reliable and trouble-free operation as its predecessor and that it will serve for numerically demanding modelling for as long as possible,” G. Ruetenik said.
