Inauguration of national supercomputer DAEDALUS in Lavrio

What the sources report

The national supercomputer «ΔΑΙΔΑΛΟΣ» (DAEDALUS) was inaugurated on 19/10/26 in Lavrio by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Minister Dimitris Papastergiou. Star

With a measured performance of 85.69 PetaFlops, it ranks 31st on the TOP500 and 23rd on the Green500, according to the rankings of June 2026. CNN Greece

The implementation was undertaken by ΕΔΥΤΕ – GRNET, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise undertook the procurement and installation of the equipment. CNN Greece

In health, it will support the training of Artificial Intelligence models for early disease detection and, in Civil Protection, models for forecasting wildfire risk. MEGA

According to Papastergiou, the goal is productive services within December and free access for at least two years. Kontra News

Where they differ

Dimokratia reports that, according to a report, the computer performs in one second calculations that would require a human 2.7 billion years, while it corresponds to roughly 85,000 powerful desktop computers. Dimokratia

As for the power in operations per second, Dimokratia writes approximately 85,690,000,000,000,000, while Kathimerini writes approximately 85.69 tetrakis million. Dimokratia Kathimerini