A brand new supercomputer, mentioned to be essentially the most highly effective in Europe, has been accomplished and launched by Italian oil multinational Eni, which is able to use it to help with issues like enhancing the accuracy of geological and fluid dynamic research for CO2 storage, creating extra environment friendly batteries, and optimizing the biofuels provide chain.
The system, named HPC6 (for Excessive Efficiency Computing) offers a peak computational energy of 606 PFlop/s, or over 600 quadrillion mathematical operations per second. Eni mentioned it had achieved a debut rating of quantity 5 within the TOP500’s listing of supercomputers (launched on 18 November, 2024). “This is a superb end result that ranks HPC6 as first supercomputer in Europe, the world’s first industrial-use supercomputer and the one non-US system among the many high 5 on the earth.”
The group mentioned the launch of HPC6 marked a pivotal second in its decarbonisation technique.
Current functions for high-performance computing at Eni embrace optimizing industrial plant operations, enhancing the accuracy of geological and fluid dynamics research for CO2 storage, growing extra environment friendly batteries, optimizing the biofuel provide chain, growing supplies, and the simulation of plasma conduct in magnetic confinement fusion.
The group’s CEO Claudio Descalzi mentioned: “Technological developments enable us to make use of power extra effectively by lowering emissions and selling the event of recent power options.
“We have now built-in supercomputing all through our complete enterprise chain, reworking it into an indispensable lever for reaching Internet Zero and creating worth.”
Eni’s new HPC6 system delivers a big enhance over the 70 PFlop/s of its predecessor HPC4 and HPC5 methods, to over 600 peak PFlop/s. It “combines CPUs and GPUs in a hybrid configuration, with over 3400 compute nodes and practically 14,000 GPUs, optimizing each computational efficiency and power effectivity.” It employs employs HPE’s Cray EX4000 and Cray ClusterStor E1000 methods.
HPC6 is put in in a devoted space throughout the agency’s Inexperienced Information Centre, in Ferrera Erbognone, close to Milan.
A brand new liquid cooling system is claimed to enhance power effectivity by optimizing the absorption of warmth generated by the brand new machine.