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Ranking of the most powerful machines in the world of computing is published twice a year (www.top500.org). "Zeus" from AGH CYFRONET for the ninth time in a row was the most powerful computer in our country. In the first 500 of this ranking there was one more Polish supercomputer located at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical Modelling at University of Warsaw (277 place). Traditionally leading positions were occupied by computing machines from China, USA, UK, Germany and Japan.

Cluster "Zeus" is intended for scientific calculations, including the PL-Grid project. AGH UST supercomputer is based on Scientific Linux operating system (SL). The computational power of "Zeus" is over 374 Tflops. Provider of solutions used in this unit is a Hewlett-Packard company. Supercomputer "Zeus" is used for example for modeling energy projects, calculations in the development of high energy physics (eg in the work of CERN) and the complex calculations in chemistry, biology and nanotechnology. Scientists can use its resources free of charge. Number of computational tasks performed by "Zeus" in 2013 amounted to more than 8,000,000. Scientists have estimated that the implementation of last year's calculations would take a single computer (the strongest configuration currently available on the market) of about 11,000 years.

Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH is currently equipping new machine hall, investment worth over 12.2 million PLN in purpose of developing computing infrastructure AGH. The new building will soon begin the process of installing the next supercomputers. They will be characterized not only by enormous computing power, but also by superfast "interconnections", ie connections between different CPUs / nodes. The new devices will be equipped with advanced liquid cooling technology used directly onto a supercomputer microprocessors.