The European Commission, together with the European Joint Undertaking on High Performance Computing (EuroHPC JU), the Italian Ministry of University Research and the CINECA Consortium, today unveiled LEONARDO, Europe’s newest supercomputer in Technopol, Bologna, Italy.
LEONARDO is a world-class supercomputing system designed and built in Europe. When fully operational, it delivers nearly 250 petaflops (250 million computations per second) of processing power. LEONARDO is currently classified as his 4th most powerful supercomputer in the world. This is his €120 million co-investment, half with the European Commission, half with the Italian Ministry of University Research, and with the other five of his EuroHPC participating countries (Austria, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, …Slovenia) funded by his CINECA consortium.
LEONARDO is the second operational pre-exascale supercomputer in Europe, after LUMI in Kajaani, Finland. It combines the latest high-performance computing components with the use of artificial intelligence to handle highly complex tasks. This will enable unprecedented cancer and drug research, understand how the human brain works, discover clean energy technologies, create more accurate climate models, and help predict and monitor natural disasters and pandemics. increase.
Focused on environmental sustainability, LEONARDO supercomputer systems are equipped with tools that can dynamically adjust power consumption to ensure an intelligent and optimal balance between energy savings and performance. In addition, it uses a water cooling system to increase energy efficiency.
The computing services offered by CINECA and LEONARDO will be further enhanced by the integration of quantum computers. CINECA has also been chosen as the hosting entity for his one of the first quantum computers built in Europe.
Delivering Europe’s world-class high-performance computing and data infrastructure continues with the continued installation of petascale supercomputer Deucalion in Portugal and Europe’s third pre-exascale supercomputer MareNostrum 5 in Spain .
Additionally, a new supercomputer site was announced by EuroHPC JU in June 2022. This includes his JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale his supercomputer hosted at the Jülich Supercomputing Center in Germany.
In October 2022, EuroHPC JU also announced six sites to host quantum computers that will be integrated into existing supercomputers.
In addition, Europe’s second exascale supercomputer recruitment is set to open in 2023, with more supercomputers and quantum computers to be introduced after 2023.
CINECA is a non-profit consortium of 70 Italian universities, 40 national institutions, the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research and Education. EuroHPC JU has five participating countries: Greece, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia and Slovakia.
LEONARDO joins EuroHPC JU’s existing supercomputers (Discoverer in Bulgaria, MeluXina in Luxembourg, Vega in Slovenia, Karolina in the Czech Republic and LUMI in Finland).
The European Joint Enterprise for High Performance Computing (EuroHPC JU) is a legal and funding body established in 2018 to enable the EU and EuroHPC member countries to coordinate efforts and pool resources to: . In July 2021, the Board adopted his EuroHPC JU regulations, resulting in an additional investment of €7 billion.
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