Offshore staff
SAN DONATO MILANESE, Italy — Eni has started building a new high-performance computing (HPC) system called HPC6.
The company is looking to increase the computational power provided by its HPC4 and HPC5 systems—currently 70 PFlop/s—to more than 600 PFlop/s, or 600 quadrillion mathematical operations per second.
So the new HPC system will represent an order of magnitude increase in computing capacity.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise won an international tender to build the HPC6 system and its storage facility, which will respectively employ HPE Cray EX4000 systems and HPE Cray ClusterStor E1000 technologies.
The new computing system will also include AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs, and HPE Slingshot Interconnect, an open ethernet-based capability designed to support exa-scale class workloads.
It will be one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers dedicated to industrial applications and more energy efficient, Eni claimed, with minimized carbon emissions. It will be located in a dedicated area within the company’s Green Data Center, which features a new liquid cooling system for improved efficiency and sustainability.
01.23.2024
