Cineca gets 32 quadrillion calculations per second with IBM and Nvidia

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The new IBM POWER9 accelerated cluster at CINECA in Italy.

IBM developed the Marconi100 supercomputer for the Italian computing center Cineca, the company said in a statement.

The system was built by IBM using its Power9 technology and Nvidia V100 Tensor Core GPUs, says the company.

According to measurements conducted by Cineca, the system offers roughly 32 theoretical peak petaFLOPS of computing power, or up to 32 quadrillion calculations per second; according to IBM.

[Image courtesy: Cineca]