Attendees will visit the Green Data Center in Ferrera Erbognone, in the province of Pavia, which hosts Eni's central processing systems, both IT for management and Oil & Gas applications.
The Technology
It is home to HPC4, installed in 2018, and its upgrade, HPC5: one of the most powerful and efficient supercomputers in the world. In June 2020 it entered the TOP500 ranking as the sixth most powerful supercomputer in the world and the first in Europe. In June 2022, it proves to be the most powerful industrial supercomputer in the world. Also in June 2020, it entered the GREEN500 special list, earning the same position as the sixth most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world, first in Europe and first overall among all industrial computing systems, a position it retains in June 2022. If we disregard experimental computers by considering only supercomputing systems with more than 500,000 computing cores, HPC5 ranked as the world's second most energy-efficient computer in 2020 and still occupies fifth place in June 2022. In terms of size, concentration, transport, thermal disposal and overall efficiency, the center presents some of the most complicated problems in energy management. Our Green Data Center was set up with a view to total reliability when responding to the IT demands of the company, with efficiency in green energy. Ever since it opened in 2013, its results have been of world-beating excellence. This is why no changes have needed to be made to its infrastructure in the last seven years, and the GDC can easily house both HPC4 and HPC5 without any adaptations. Due to the overall design of the buildings and facilities, in 2020 its P.U.E. (Power Usage Effectiveness, the ratio of the total amount of energy used to the electricity used by individual IT devices) was 1.162, compared to a world average of 1.620: in other words, the Green Data Center needs less electricity than its competitors to run its computers. These results are even more significant considering that every installation at G.D.C. is TIER IV classified, in other words capable of guaranteeing maximum operational continuity.