(ANSA) - Rome, April 23 - A new supercomputer performing up
to a million billion operations per second is now available to
Italian and European researchers, scientists said Thursday.
Galileo, based in Bologna, is the result of a partnership
between the Inter-university super calculation consortium
CINECA, the national nuclear physics institute (INFN) and the
University of Milan-Bicocca.
The 2-million euros supercomputer is a IBM NeXtScale model
boasting 8,256 processors with 516 nodes and has a peak
performance of 1 PetaFlop/s.
"Galileo will make a significant contribution to research
activities in theoretical and computational physics by providing
adequate calculation tools to support the ambitious scientific
programmes underway in the key fields of fundamental interaction
and complex systems," INFN computational physics coordinator
Raffaele Tripiccione said.
Galileo supercomputer operational
IBM NeXtScale model has a peak performance of 1 PetaFlop/s