The University of Pisa (UniPi) has deployed a Lenovo high-performance computing (HPC) system to support scientific research and teaching at the institution.
The system, which is the largest university supercomputer in Italy, has been installed in UniPi’s data center and brings the number of racks on site to 104.
Consisting of 16 SD650 V3 nodes with two Intel Xeon Max 9480 CPUs, the first x86 processor with high-bandwidth memory (HBM), the use of Lenovo’s Neptune water technology has allowed the energy consumption of the system to be reduced by 40 percent.
According to UniPi, sustainability was a deciding factor in selecting a Lenovo system, with the project designed from the outset to have the lowest possible environmental impact, allowing the university to evolve towards a sustainable data center.
“We are proud to be able to contribute to the installation of the largest supercomputing center within an Italian university. And to do so with one of our most cutting-edge solutions, from the point of view of data center sustainability, such as Lenovo Neptune,” said Alessandro de Bartolo, CEO and country general manager, infrastructure solutions group, Lenovo.
He added: “Expanding this facility will enable researchers to take researchers to the next level in globally competitive projects for science and engineering research.”
The University of Pisa was founded in 1343 and is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Italy. It has three data centers in the city of Pisa and in 2016 the university launched a project for a new "Green Data Centre” to expand its support for HPC applications.
UniPi’s Green Data Centre is reportedly the largest data center in Italy and was the only facility in the country to be awarded an ‘A’ classification by the Agency for Digital Italy earlier this year.
