The brand new system shall be known as Pitagora and can develop into a part of the Bologna Technopole ecosystem. It is going to be capable of carry out roughly 45 million billion operations per second with most power effectivity because of using Lenovo Neptune’s progressive water cooling expertise
Milan, November 18, 2024 – Cineca has signed an settlement with Lenovo for the set up of a brand new Excessive Efficiency Computing (HPC) system for the scientific group to analysis fusion power. The brand new infrastructure, with the logical title Pitagora, will be capable to carry out about 45 million billion operations per second (PFlop/s). It is going to be put in within the Cineca knowledge middle in Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna) on the finish of 2024 and can develop into a part of the Bologna Technopole ecosystem. The supercomputer shall be devoted to the numerical simulation of plasma physics and the structural evaluation of superior supplies for nuclear fusion.
Cineca is a college consortium, one of many largest computing facilities in Italy and one of the superior on the earth for high-performance computing, residence to quite a few nationwide and worldwide Excessive Efficiency Computing (HPC) tasks. These tasks are indispensable for growth and innovation in numerous scientific and technological fields, based mostly on computational methodology to assist computational analysis in a variety of sectors, from biodiversity to life sciences, from synthetic intelligence to supplies science, from earth sciences to climatology.
Since 2016, when Marconi, the primary Cineca supercomputer with Lenovo expertise, was inaugurated, the consortium has hosted supercomputing programs devoted to the European scientific group for research on nuclear fusion to supply electrical energy in a secure and sustainable approach in collaboration with EUROfusion, the European consortium that goals to design technological programs able to producing electrical energy utilizing fusion power by 2050, and ENEA, which represents Italy within the EUROfusion consortium.
The Lenovo supercomputer, chosen by way of a aggressive public tender, offers 45 PFlop/s of energy with excessive power effectivity, permitting the discount of the system’s cooling electrical energy consumption by 15% by way of Lenovo Neptune™ Direct Water-Cooling expertise. This expertise permits as much as 98% of the warmth produced by the supercomputer to be dissipated, sustaining the temperature of the CPUs at values that may assure the utmost working frequency.
Alessandro de Bartolo, Basic Supervisor, Italy, Infrastructure Options Group, Lenovo, stated:
“Lenovo helps scientific analysis globally and all those that are capable of think about the longer term and make it occur utilizing state-of-the-art expertise. It is a historic collaboration with Cineca, a supply of delight, and we have been prepared to supply our assist by way of processing energy, scalability and sustainability in a problem as vital and troublesome as fusion power analysis. In an period the place the complexity of scientific challenges is rising exponentially, HPC offers the ability to simulate, mannequin, and analyze phenomena that might in any other case require virtually infinite time and sources.”
Giovanni Ponti, head of the IT and ICT Methods Improvement Division of the ENEA Division of Power Applied sciences and Renewable Sources:
“ENEA confirms its prestigious positioning in supercomputing and within the design and configuration of superior computing infrastructures to assist the scientific group. With Pitagora, researchers could have an progressive computing infrastructure, geared up with the most recent software program libraries and growth environments to satisfy the brand new challenges in fusion power analysis.
Sanzio Bassini, Director of the HPC Cineca Division
“The collaboration with ENEA and EUROfusion, consolidated through the years, finds in Pitagora a cutting-edge software to speed up analysis on this essential sector, able to guaranteeing distinctive efficiency for plasma physics simulations and supplies evaluation with power effectivity aligned with the very best requirements of environmental sustainability. This new set up, which is built-in into the Bologna Tecnopolo ecosystem, additional consolidates CINECA’s function as a middle of excellence for scientific computing at a world degree and strengthens Italy’s place within the European panorama of fusion power analysis. Our purpose is to proceed to supply scientists with essentially the most superior computational instruments to sort out essentially the most complicated scientific challenges of our time.”
Cineca
Cineca, the biggest supercomputing middle for scientific and technological analysis in Italy, and one of the vital on the earth, is a non-profit inter-university consortium made up of 70 Italian universities, the Ministry of Training and Benefit and the Ministry of College and Analysis, in addition to 46 nationwide public establishments. Since 1969, Cineca has been supporting the scientific group by way of one of the vital computing infrastructures on the worldwide degree. The Consortium’s supercomputers are ranked among the many strongest on the earth, and are utilized by European researchers in multidisciplinary tasks and framework agreements with main analysis establishments. Because of expertise switch actions, Cineca’s supercomputing, AI and massive knowledge actions are additionally aimed on the nation’s main business.
ENEA
ENEA is the Nationwide Company for New Applied sciences, Power and Sustainable Financial Improvement, a public physique geared toward analysis, technological innovation and the availability of superior companies to companies, public administration and residents within the fields of power, setting and sustainable financial growth. Since its inception within the Nineteen Sixties, ENEA’s strengths have been utilized analysis, expertise switch and technical-scientific help to corporations, associations, residents, central and native administrations so as to contribute to the power and ecological transition by selling progress and competitiveness in numerous sectors, together with: power applied sciences (renewable sources, storage, good grids), hydrogen, new nuclear fusion and 4th technology nuclear, power effectivity, applied sciences for cultural heritage, seismic safety, meals security, biotechnology, progressive and strategic uncooked supplies, anthropogenic impacts and local weather change, round financial system.
Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a $62 billion international expertise firm, ranked 217th on the Fortune World 500, with 77,000 workers worldwide and hundreds of thousands of shoppers day-after-day in 180 markets. With an bold imaginative and prescient to ship smarter expertise for all, Lenovo has constructed its success because the world’s largest PC firm by additional increasing into progress areas that allow fashionable IT infrastructure (consumer, edge, cloud, community and intelligence) together with servers, storage, cellular gadgets, software program, options and companies. This transformation, coupled with Lenovo’s revolutionary innovation, helps construct a extra inclusive, trusted and clever future for everybody, in all places.
