ENEA Chooses Lenovo for Supercomputer To Accelerate Sustainable Energy Research

The brand new Excessive-Efficiency Computing (HPC) infrastructure created in collaboration with Lenovo and Intel will give additional impetus to analysis actions on clear vitality within the ENEA hub in Portici (Naples).

Thanks to Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling know-how, it can even be potential to cut back the vitality consumption of the construction.

MILAN, December 26, 2024 /CSRwire/ – ENEA, the Nationwide Company for New Applied sciences, Power and Sustainable Financial Improvement, has chosen Lenovo for the set up of an HPC system on the Portici (Naples) hub to speed up analysis actions on clear vitality, specifically on nuclear fusion. This new HPC system, consisting of 758 nodes with 2 Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8592+ CPUs, will permit to deliver the computational capabilities of CRESCO – Computational Middle for Analysis on Advanced Techniques – 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 when it comes to processing energy.

Along with the computational energy wanted to speed up analysis actions, sustainability for ENEA was additionally one of many essential elements behind the selection of the associate for the venture and Lenovo’s HPC answer ensures higher vitality effectivity than prior to now. Using Lenovo Neptune Direct Water-Cooling know-how, the truth is, is ready to seize as much as 98% of the warmth produced by the supercomputer and liquid cooling saves the vitality used for the followers. Due to the better effectivity, the temperature of the CPUs doesn’t attain important 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 vitality standpoint, 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 information visualization, via in depth use of GRID applied sciences. The ICT infrastructure presently consists of 6 poles (Frascati, Portici, Bologna, Casaccia, Trisaia, Brindisi), every geared up with 3D computing and visualization infrastructures and specialised abilities working on totally different software matters. Particularly, the CRESCO computing facilities are capable of present superior computational companies to all ENEA customers and its private and non-private companions in all the applying areas wherein the Institute is energetic: vitality functions (combustion, fluid dynamics), nuclear and fusion codes, climatological and environmental fashions, construction of matter, modeling for networks and significant infrastructures, distant management of enormous devices, bioinformatics. Within the vitality sector, forecasting and generative actions might help 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.

“In the present day, high-performance computing and synthetic intelligence open new horizons in essential areas for our society reminiscent of sustainable financial improvement, local weather, innovation within the vitality sector and medication, analysis areas that see ENEA on the forefront.” – feedback Alessandro de Bartolo, Nation Basic 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 essential technological advance for ENEA, rising computing sources with cutting-edge techniques from the standpoint of parallel computing, which on the identical time assure excessive ranges of vitality effectivity”, notes Giovanni Ponti, Head of ENEA’s ICT Division of the Division of Power Applied sciences and Renewable Sources “CRESCO8 will permit 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 group and analysis tasks”.

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 discipline, making it some 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.

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