Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová visited Tachyum’s Bratislava offices to witness first-hand the progress of the Prodigy Universal Processor, which is in the final stage of development. Tachyum founder and CEO Radoslav Danilák and Adrian Vyčítal, member of the Board of Directors, welcomed Madam President.

“If we want to start catching up with the living standard in western European countries again, we need to develop cutting-edge technologies in Slovakia. We need companies with the ambition to push the boundaries of what is possible and to succeed on the world market. It is great that we already have companies with this vision in Slovakia.”

Zuzana Čaputová, President of the Slovak Republic

“It was an honor to showcase Prodigy’s capabilities to Slovakian officials today, and demonstrate how our Universal Processor will provide an immediate impact to the world’s data centers by enabling efficient processing of increasingly needy applications.”

Dr. Radoslav Danilák

Tachyum entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) agreement with Watad Energy & Communications Co. ltd, the leading OT (Operational Technology) Cybersecurity and AI Company in the KSA and GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) region, to bring Prodigy technology to commercial, industrial and scientific research institutions throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the GCC region.

Tachyum and WATAD plan to work together to advance an open platform for AI and Big Data, as well as support innovations in relevant industry sectors and engage with other leaders in the field in KSA and GCC region. Both companies expect these efforts to yield opportunities for high-tech investors and regional economies including employment growth, and more profitable research.

Tachyum successfully demonstrated Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) running on the Prodigy Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware emulation system, representing a critical piece of the company’s test strategy and ensuring that Tachyum’s Prodigy hardware is maturing on pace for production later this year.

A white paper, “Tachyum HPC/AI Software Stack Overview,” details the software packages offered by the company and supported by Tachyum software team that enable software developers to build HPC applications deployed as part of Prodigy-empowered data centers.

Tachyum’s software designs help meet the high demands of cloud and HPC/AI workloads with Prodigy. The company’s software team cooperates with early customers and partners to create software packages ideally suited for HPC environments primarily using open-source software. With its software stack, Tachyum supports all key software libraries required for HPC applications and addresses current challenges and opportunities.

“Multiple different processing technologies are combined in today’s HPC systems. Achieving the required performance and functionality at an affordable power envelope places a lot of challenges to HPC software environments – especially on scheduling and resource management. Tachyum’s Prodigy, the world’s first Universal Processor, integrates the functionality of CPU, GPGPU and TPU into a single homogeneous architecture so that there is no additional complexity needing to be solved on the software level between hardware components”

Dr. Radoslav Danilák

Dr. Danilák is the author of the idea to build a world-class supercomputer in Slovakia and Tachyum alongside with partners within I4DI (Innovations for Digital Infrastructure) provided their relevant capabilities and experience to the development of the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) in Slovakia. Slovakia urgently needs to transform its industry. A world-class supercomputer can have a huge impact and contribution to the development of new innovative industries, it is a potential that can significantly change the industry in Slovakia. If a country wants to be recognized as a supercomputing power, it’s not enough to have a supercomputer in the top 500. It’s not even enough to have a supercomputer in the top 50. There are nearly 200 countries in the world. If researchers want a supercomputer to solve the most complex and challenging calculations, they don’t want the 50th-best supercomputer. They want the best, second best, or maybe the third best.

In Slovakia, there is interest in a powerful supercomputer with world-class performance. The survey by Tachyum, which addressed experts, and representatives of the academic community, representatives of the private and state sectors, and potential users of the upcoming supercomputer, found that 92% of respondents think that the planned supercomputer should offer world-class performance.

Access to higher computing power and sufficient technological infrastructure is also an opportunity to actively participate in big EU or global projects.

“The real possibility of having a world-class supercomputer in Slovakia may not be repeated for years. This opportunity includes everything that can help Slovakia - from attracting top talents from around the world to a good image of the country. New digital economies are growing in the world and all around us, and we have a real chance to create our own. That is why it is important that we take it. Let’s build the Slovak Fintech sector through a supercomputer with AI.”

Davy Čajko, president of Fintech & Insurtech Association of Slovakia

In February 2023, Tachyum organized on its premises in Bratislava an event for Slovak HPC and AI community to present the progress with Prodigy and discuss important topics relating to the Slovak supercomputer project. Up to 50 representatives and experts from academia, public and private sector attended.