Modernizing the state through IT

The General Secretariat of Information Systems for Public Administration (GSIS) intends to create a supercomputing center that will cover the needs of the entire public sector.

The new supercomputer is expected to cover the needs of the state domains' digital transformation, with the focus being on simplifying administrative procedures - i.e. reducing bureaucracy and optimizing services for citizens.

The merging of the GSIS infrastructure with that of Information Society (G-Cloud) is set to be implemented soon, and will make the GSIS by far the biggest computing center in the country.

The center will have 3,620 cores, 66.5 terrabyte of RAM and 1,000 terabyte discs. Yet as the computing centers of the state sector flow into the GSIS, according to General Secretary Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, the center will be constantly expanding.

In total over the next...