HPC and Artificial Intelligence

Generative AI Solutions via Supercomputing

The challenges and potential of HPC6

Liquid cooling system

Environmentally mindful design

The Green Data Center

The evolution in supercomputing

History

The infrastructure

The history of supercomputers, from 1948 to HPC6

Eni’s new supercomputer

Its computing power supports algorithms used for three-dimensional subsoil imaging, based on data acquired from the surface, as well as for computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

Leadership in geosciences

By analysing the interactions between CO₂ and rock systems, we strengthen our expertise in re-using depleted reservoirs as storage sites.

Development of CO₂ storage technologies

Our HPC systems support applications ranging from scientific research to energy production from new sources, to AI.

Competitive advantage

At the heart of Eni's decarbonization strategy

Increasingly in demand in areas such as more sustainable chemistry and to reach reduction goals for carbon impact.

Development of innovative materials

Plasma behaviour’s simulations to improve fusion efficiency and stability while advancing research into innovative materials.

Magnetic confinement fusion

To mitigate weather impacts on Eni’s infrastructure and to effectively design and manage wind and solar plants.

Atmospheric simulations

HPC6, the supercomputer driving the energy transition

HPC6: the supercomputer for the energy transition

The history

HPC6 technology

Discover the details of the supercomputer

The system

A high-performance system

Technical Terminology Glossary

Advanced computing power

The technology

First computer in history based on von Neumann architecture, first working computer with a stored program, first computer with RAM.

Manchester Baby (Small-Scale Experimental Machine)

For geophysics: first digital recordings of seismic surveys at Eni (an early adopter of this technology).

Transition from analogue to digital computing machines

Agip Computing Centre for Geophysical Data Processing opens.

IBM 370/145 with 1 MB of memory, supported by an IBM-2938 Array Processor

First system with 3D-stacked and liquid-cooled boards.

Cray-2

With a computing capacity of 0.6 GFlops, it enters the Top 500 of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and the Cray Operators Exclusive Club.

Cray Y-MP 4 E

IBM Deep Blue

Simulates the atmosphere and the oceans with an accuracy of 10 kilometres, was five times more powerful than the previous world number 1 and was housed in an anti-seismic “cushioned” building.

Earth Simulator

A global network of supercomputers

Human Brain Simulation - Blue Brain Project.

IBM Blue Gene/L (2005) \ HPE SGI 8600 (2022)

Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG)

HPCC1, Eni

HPC2, Eni

AlphaGo (Google DeepMind)

HPC3, Eni

HPC4, Eni

HPC5, Eni

Google DeepMind releases the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, making predictions for nearly all human proteins and hundreds of millions of proteins from other organisms freely available to the scientific community.

Google supercomputing systems

ChatGPT becomes available to the general public.