2024-08-05 22:41:44
(ANSA) – ROME, 05 AUG – Cresco7, the new ENEA supercomputer that is now starting up at the Portici Research Center (Naples), can perform 500 thousand billion mathematical operations per second. The supercomputer will be at the service of scientific research, where it will be able to play an important role in complex studies that require great computing power, such as those on climate change, forecasts on atmospheric pollution and those that aim to develop new materials for the production of renewable energy. “Cresco7 will be available to institutions, research organizations, universities and high-tech companies in many sectors,” says Giovanni Ponti, responsible for the development of systems for information technology and ICT.
The new device will thus join its predecessor, Cresco6, inaugurated in 2018. The latter remains more powerful at the moment, with an initial capacity of around 700 thousand billion operations per second then increased to 1.4 million billion, but the latest arrival is more compact in terms of size and has several new features regarding the software. Furthermore, strong attention has been given to environmental sustainability: in particular, to the recovery of the heat generated, which will be reused by the Enea Center to heat the rooms and water.
“All these features will be the starting point for future large-scale installations such as the next Cresco8 computing system – says Francesco Iannone, head of the scientific and high-performance computing infrastructure laboratory – which is scheduled to be put into operation in autumn 2024”. The next supercomputer, in fact, already promises to be significantly more powerful, with an expected capacity of around 10 million billion operations per second. (ANSA).
2024-08-05 22:41:44