All bureaucracy in one supercomputer

The oft-announced, but never implemented, transition of Greece's administration from a paperbound, cumbersome bureaucracy into a fully digital one, will be boosted by the acquisition of a supercomputer into which eventually all ministries will eventually be connected.

The General Secretariat for Public Sector Information Systems (GSIS) will lead the administration's digital transformation aiming at simplifying bureaucratic procedures and offer better services to citizens. As a first step, GSIS will integrate its infrastructure with that of the Society of Information (also known as G-Cloud) to become the country's largest computing center, far ahead of any other.

The center's supercomputer will contain processors with 3,620 cores, 66.5 terabytes of RAM and 1,000 1TB disks. Being modular, it will constantly expand as more administration computing centers are integrated....