Italian energy company Eni switched on its new HPC6 supercomputer on Christmas Day. The 477.9 petaflops system ranked fifth on the latest edition of the Top500 list of most powerful supercomputers.

The HPC6 was turned on on Christmas Day in Ferrera Erbognone, a small commune in the Lombardy region of Italy. The system is an HPC Cray EX235a, powered by AMD 3rd generation EPYC CPUs and AMD MI250X ...

Italian energy giant Eni has launched its €100 million HPC6 supercomputer. Supercomputers like Eni's, along with AI applications, are revolutionizing energy exploration. Other major companies ...

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ahead of the current fifth and sixth place Italy’s HPC6 and Japan’s Fugaku. China largely avoided entering new systems into the Top500 list for several years. The unnamed heterogeneous system was ...

High Performance Computing 6 (HPC6) is based at Eni’s Green Data Center in the small town of Ferrera Erbognone near Pavia and is estimated to operate at a peak of 606 petaflops. A petaflop is a unit ...

With an estimated cost of over €100mn, the supercomputer - known as the HPC6 - will be able to handle a number of artificial intelligence functions, as well as highly sophisticated calculations, with ...

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