Data Centre Magazine June 2021 | Page 122

ENERGY MANAGEMENT
University of Pisa have come to increasingly rely on the university ’ s HPC resources to broaden the scope of human knowledge . Over the past few years , the university ’ s data centre has also allowed scholars to branch out into newer fields , like big data analytics , data visualisation and machine learning . “ This growing array of HPC demands is creating new challenges for the University of Pisa ’ s IT Centre ”, notes a case study by Intel , which provides software stack management tools to Davino and his department in order to better orchestrate an increasingly complex array of tasks .

“ We like to think of the university network as a whiteboard . We can do almost whatever we want with regards to speed , latency and so on …”

MAURIZIO DAVINI CTO , UNIVERSITY OF PISA
122 June 2021