HPC5 is a
supercomputer
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built by
Dell
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and installed by
Eni, capable of 51.721 petaflops, and is ranked 9th in the
Top500
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computing, distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these ...
as of November 2021.
It is located in the Green Data Center in
Ferrera Erbognone
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, in Northern
Italy
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. In June 2020, HPC5 ranked 6th in the
Green500
The Green500 is a biannual
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. HPC5 is an upgrade to the HPC4 system, which was built by
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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HPE was founded on November 1, 2015, in Palo Alto, California, as part of the splitting of the H ...
and used by Eni.
It is also called as HPC4+.
HPC5 spans over 1,820 Dell EMC PowerEdge C4140 servers, each with two
Intel
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Gold 6252 24-core processors and four
Nvidia
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V100 GPU accelerators.
In total, the system comprises 7,280 NVIDIA V100 GPUs.
See also
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Supercomputing in Europe
Several centers for supercomputing exist across Europe, and distributed access to them is coordinated by European initiatives to facilitate high-performance computing. One such initiative, the HPC Europa project, fits within the Distributed Eu ...
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Top500
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computing, distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these ...
*
Green500
The Green500 is a biannual
An anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded in a previous year, and may also refer to the commemoration or celebration of that event. The word was first used for Catholic f ...
References
External links
Official Eni website
Supercomputing in Europe
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