Wednesday, April 9, at the ENEA Research Centre in Portici (Naples), the CRESCO 8 high-performance supercomputer will be inaugurated. Designed to support national scientific research with advanced computing capabilities, CRESCO 8 represents a significant step forward in computational power.

The event will feature a workshop focusing on the strategic role of High Performance Computing (HPC) in technological innovation. Among the participants in the institutional session will be Massimo Bernaschi, Vice President of GARR, alongside representatives from ENEA, CNR, CINECA, INFN, as well as local and ministerial authorities.

CRESCO 8, the latest evolution of the CRESCO supercomputer family, has been acquired through funding from the European Next Generation EU programme. Among its key applications, it will support the PNRR Divertor Tokamak Test Facility Upgrade (DTT-U) project, dedicated to plasma physics simulations and experimental data management. This system will enhance research in energy, sustainability, and digital transformation, strengthen national scientific infrastructures, and consolidate ENEA’s role in technological innovation, working in collaboration with industry and international partners.

GARR has always interconnected the various versions of CRESCO, and with the new GARR-T network, it has reinforced the backbone links of the PoP hosted in Portici, now benefiting from a dual 100 Gbps connection. This upgrade, funded by the PNRR as part of the ICSC project, has focused on Southern Italy, increasing the total backbone capacity in the Campania region to 4.4 Tbps.

The event is open to the public, with free participation upon registration: https://www.eventi.enea.it/tutti-gli-eventi-enea/inaugurazione-del-supercalcolatore-cresco-8.html

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