Leonardo has chosen Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, as the technological partner for the development of the supercomputer that will be installed in Genoa, in one of the six Italian offices of the Leonardo Labs, the new Group laboratories dedicated to advanced research and technological innovation.
"The supercomputer we are developing in Genoa will significantly strengthen both the company's and nationally capabilities in supercomputing, big data and autonomous and intelligent systems", says Alessandro Profumo, CEO of Leonardo. "This project will contribute significantly to the positioning of Italy among the top five nations in the world by calculation capacity in the sectors of public and industrial research".
The new computer center, integrated by Atos, will be one of the first in Europe, and the first in Italy, to be equipped with the latest generation NVidia A100 accelerators. The supercomputer will count on a battery of over one hundred supercomputing units, for a total computing power greater than 5PFlops (5 million billion floating point operations per second), connected by a high performance network and a storage system equipped with the latest hardware and software technologies, for a storage capacity of the order of 20Pbytes (20 million Gigabytes). Leonardo and Atos will also be able to collaborate on further research projects related to quantum computing.
Leonardo's supercomputer will be the nerve center of the Leonardo Labs headquarters in Genoa, the new corporate research and development laboratories dedicated to innovation in Leonardo's traditional sectors and to the development of new technologies for the long term. The Labs are springing up near Leonardo's main industrial sites in Italy and abroad with the aim of facilitating technology transfer and maximizing the benefits for the reference territories, consolidating collaboration with local institutions.
Leonardo has recently launched the international recruitment selection of 68 young talents for Leonardo Labs that will be included in six specific research areas (Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Intelligent System, Big Data Analytics, High Performance Computing, Electrification of Aeronautical Platforms, Materials and Structures and Quantum Technologies) and which will be part of the teams being set up in the six offices of the Labs, present, in addition to Genoa, in the areas of Milan, Turin, Rome, Naples and Taranto.
The new laboratories will allow to feed a continuous flow of talents to ensure flexibility and renewal, both of skills and professional skills, based on an internationally adopted model in which young external researchers of international origin will work together with internal experts and researchers to Leonardo's Divisions.
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