Eni builds the most powerful industrial supercomputer in the world

At the end of October, 2019 the Italian petrogas the company Eni began work on installation of new supercomputer HPC5 system which on power exceeds three times already belonging to HPC4 company and makes 52 Pflops that is equivalent to 52 million billions of mathematical operations per second. Thanks to HPC5 installation, data center Eni will become the most powerful supercomputer in the world in the industrial sphere with a total power of 70 of Pflops. As well as the predecessor, HPC5 will be based on PowerEdge production series servers Dell EMC.

Eni began work on installation of a new supercomputer system of HPC5 which on power exceeds three times already belonging to HPC4 company

The new HPC5 supercomputer was developed on the basis of a hybrid cluster technology (the central processor / processor and the graphic processor / the graphic processor). 1820 Dell EMC PowerEdge C4140 servers will be composition, in each of which about two 24-core Intel Xeon processors Gold 6252 and on four NVIDIA V100 accelerators are installed. Servers will be connected to superhigh-performance network InfiniBand Mellanox HDR with a speed of 200 Gbps and not blocked topology which provides effective and direct connection between all servers. The amount of a subsystem of storage will reach 15 PBytes with a cumulative performance of 200 Gbytes / page.

HPC5 system will be installed in Green Data Center belonging to Eni and opened in 2013. HPC5 allows to use the "Big Data" generated at an operational phase by all production assets and will promote further acceleration of Research and Development concerning not fossil power sources and also will help the company in the field of geological exploration, development and monitoring of oil fields at all stages. The HPC5 supercomputer uses the energy made by a solar power plant in Green Data Center for reduction of emissions and operating costs.^[1]

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