Italian energy company Eni switched on its new HPC6 supercomputer on Christmas Day: a 477.9 petaflops system which ranked fifth on the latest edition of the Top500 list of most powerful supercomputers.
HPC6 is an HPE Cray EX235a system powered by AMD 3rd generation Epyc CPUs, around 14,000 AMD MI250X GPUs, and utilizes HPE’s Slingshot-11 fabric. Housed at Eni’s Green Data Center in Ferrera Erbognone, a province in the Italian region of Lombardy, the supercomputer is estimated to have cost more than €100 million ($104m).
“Innovation and the constant evolution of technologies are fundamental to maintaining and strengthening Eni’s leadership in the energy transition. Technological advancements allow us to use energy more efficiently by reducing emissions and promoting the development of new energy solutions,” said CEO of Eni, Claudio Descalzi. “We have integrated supercomputing throughout our entire business chain, transforming it into an indispensable lever for achieving net zero and creating value.”
