Italy’s National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) has chosen Lenovo for its new HPC cluster, dubbed CRESCO8. It consists of 758 nodes with 2 Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ CPUs, meaning the cluster will bring the compute power of CRESCO (Computational Center for Research on Complex Systems) from its current 1.01 petaflops to more than 6.5 petaflops.
“The new supercomputer CRESCO8 represents an important technological advance for ENEA, increasing computing resources with cutting-edge systems from the point of view of parallel computing, which at the same time guarantee high levels of energy efficiency,” said Giovanni Ponti, head of ENEA’s ICT Division of the Department of Energy Technologies and Renewable Sources.
He added: “CRESCO8 will allow ENEA researchers and all its research partners to be able to perform numerical codes, computational models, simulations, and artificial intelligence algorithms in a next-generation high-performance parallel computing cluster, capable of responding to the new needs of the scientific community and research projects.”
