Cineca has signed an agreement with Lenovo for the installation of a new High Performance Computing (HPC) system for the scientific community to research fusion energy.
The new infrastructure, with the logical name Pitagora, will be able to perform about 27 million billion operations per second (PFlop/s). It will be installed in the Cineca data centre in Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna) at the end of 2024 and will become part of the Bologna Technopole ecosystem.
The supercomputer will be dedicated to the numerical simulation of plasma physics and the structural analysis of advanced materials for nuclear fusion.
Cineca is a university consortium, one of the largest computing centres in Italy and one of the most advanced in the world for high-performance computing, home to numerous national and international HPC projects.
These projects are indispensable for development and innovation in various scientific and technological fields, based on computational methodology to support computational research in a wide range of sectors, from biodiversity to life sciences, from AI to materials science, from earth sciences to climatology.
Sanzio Bassini, Director of the HPC Cineca Department, said: “Our goal is to continue to provide scientists with the most advanced computational tools to tackle the most complex scientific challenges of our time.”
