ENERGY MANAGEMENT
THE CHANGING FACE OF REMOTE HPC
Maurizio Davini , CTO at the University of Pisa , discusses the changing demands placed on the university ’ s IT infrastructure
WRITTEN BY : HARRY MENEAR
Increasingly , the data centre is serving as the backbone of high performance computing ( HPC ) efforts around the world , an area of the industry that has undergone radical changes over the past few years . Now , the combined effects of increased AI adoption , and remote research driven by the COVID-19 pandemic , are rewriting the rulebook once again .
“ When it comes to HPC , you experience waves of different types of demand ,” explains Maurizio Davini , who has served as the Chief Technology Officer at the University of Pisa since 1998 , back when the job came with the far humbler title of IT Manager . “ Five years ago , everything we were seeing was CFD , CAE and automotive simulations . Then came chemistry , and now − during the pandemic − genomics has obviously exploded in terms of the number
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