The brand new Excessive-Efficiency Computing (HPC) infrastructure created in collaboration with Lenovo and Intel will give additional impetus to analysis actions on clear power within the ENEA hub in Portici (Naples).
Thanks to Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling know-how, it can even be attainable to cut back the power consumption of the construction.
Milan, 6 November 2024 – ENEA, the Nationwide Company for New Applied sciences, Vitality and Sustainable Financial Growth, has chosen Lenovo for the set up of an HPC system on the Portici (Naples) hub to speed up analysis actions on clear power, particularly on nuclear fusion. This new HPC system, consisting of 758 nodes with 2 Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8592+ CPUs, will enable to convey the computational capabilities of CRESCO – Computational Middle for Analysis on Complicated Methods – the supercomputing system hosted within the Portici Analysis Middle, from the present 1.01 to over 6.5 Petaflops[1], inserting it on the prime of the nationwide scene by way of processing energy.
Along with the computational energy wanted to speed up analysis actions, sustainability for ENEA was additionally one of many essential components behind the selection of the associate for the mission and Lenovo’s HPC answer ensures higher power effectivity than prior to now. Using Lenovo Neptune Direct Water-Cooling know-how, in truth, is ready to seize as much as 98% of the warmth produced by the supercomputer and liquid cooling saves the power used for the followers. Due to the better effectivity, the temperature of the CPUs doesn’t attain vital values, avoiding the discount of the utmost frequency of the cores. As well as, the Lenovo {hardware} used for the set up was completely made in Lenovo’s manufacturing facility in Hungary, designed within the coronary heart of Europe with cutting-edge applied sciences additionally from an power viewpoint, permitting a discount in emissions for the transport of the required computing infrastructure.
ENEA develops and manages a fancy ICT structure that gives customers with superior techniques for calculation, modeling and three-dimensional knowledge visualization, by way of in depth use of GRID applied sciences. The ICT infrastructure presently contains 6 poles (Frascati, Portici, Bologna, Casaccia, Trisaia, Brindisi), every outfitted with 3D computing and visualization infrastructures and specialised abilities working on completely different utility matters. Particularly, the CRESCO computing facilities are capable of present superior computational providers to all ENEA customers and its private and non-private companions in all the appliance areas by which the Institute is energetic: power functions (combustion, fluid dynamics), nuclear and fusion codes, climatological and environmental fashions, construction of matter, modeling for networks and important infrastructures, distant management of huge devices, bioinformatics. Within the power sector, forecasting and generative actions can assist determine options that may enhance the effectivity of some processes associated to digitization and decarbonization each in the private and non-private sectors and within the industrial sector.
“Immediately, high-performance computing and synthetic intelligence open new horizons in essential areas for our society resembling sustainable financial growth, local weather, innovation within the power sector and medication, analysis areas that see ENEA on the forefront.” – feedback Alessandro de Bartolo, Nation Normal Supervisor Infrastructure Options Group at Lenovo in Italy. “That’s why Lenovo is proud to help a middle of excellence like ENEA in these world challenges with our applied sciences, our expertise and our capability to innovate.”
“The brand new supercomputer CRESCO8 represents an vital technological advance for ENEA, rising computing sources with cutting-edge techniques from the viewpoint of parallel computing, which on the similar time assure excessive ranges of power effectivity”, notes Giovanni Ponti, Head of ENEA’s ICT Division of the Division of Vitality Applied sciences and Renewable Sources “CRESCO8 will enable ENEA researchers and all its analysis companions to have the ability to carry out numerical codes, computational fashions, simulations and synthetic intelligence algorithms in a next-generation high-performance parallel computing cluster, able to responding to the brand new wants of the scientific neighborhood and analysis initiatives”.
The set up is dealt with by Ricca IT, a Lenovo licensed enterprise associate. Over time, Ricca IT has gained vital expertise within the HPC and AI subject, making it one of the acknowledged entities within the Italian panorama.
[1] A petaflop is equal to a thousand trillion calculations per second (a trillion is 1,000,000 to the third), the place “peta” signifies the worth of 10 to fifteen (10^15) whereas “flop” stands for floating level operations per second, i.e. the variety of floating level operations carried out in a single second.