Eni has launched its new HPC4 supercomputer, at its Green Data Center in Ferrera Erbognone, 60 km away from Milan. HPC4 quadruples the Company’s computing power and makes it the world’s most powerful industrial system. HPC4 has a peak performance of 18.6 Petaflops which, combined with the supercomputing system already in operation (HPC3), increases Eni’s computational peak capacity to 22.4 Petaflops.
According to the latest official Top 500 supercomputers list published last November (the next list is due to be published in June 2018), Eni’s HPC4 is the only non-governmental and non-institutional system ranking among the top ten most powerful systems in the world. Eni’s Green Data Center has been designed as a single IT Infrastructure to host all of HPC’s architecture and all the other Business applications.
Eni’s Green Data Center’s supercomputers (the HPC3 and the new HPC4) provide strategic support to the company’s process of digital transformation across the entire value chain, from the exploration and development phase of oil and gas reservoirs, to the management of the big data generated in the operational phase by all our productive assets (upstream, refining and petrochemicals).
Eni’s supercomputing infrastructure operates on the basis of an extremely advanced and complex proprietary ecosystem of algorithms, created and developed by Eni, and based on the company’s own experience and know-how. In particular, HPC4 will support the execution and evolution of Eni’s leading edge suite of 3D Seismic Imaging packages, as well as advanced Petroleum System Modelling together with state of the art Reservoir Simulation algorithms and optimization of production plants.
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but will it play minecraft?