University of Pisa Simplifies HPC with Intel and Dell
From the Ground Up : The Whiteboard Approach The University of Pisa ’ s IT Centre has been working on a sweeping series of transformation initiatives since 2017 , not only to better orchestrate its HPC workloads , but to more successfully support the multitude of IT requirements that need to be met in order to run a modern university . “ Before 2017 , the IT infrastructure at the University of Pisa was distributed inside various university departments . Our restructuring project involved us redrawing that architecture with the construction of our new data centres , which saw us consolidate our operations , from 20 small data centres down to three ,” Davini explains . The restructuring process , he continues , involves meeting some of the unique challenges that are part and parcel with attempting to apply 21st Century infrastructure to an institution founded in 1343 .
“ The University of Pisa is laid out similarly to Cambridge in the UK ; it ' s a campus distributed throughout a town ,” Davini says . All the buildings that make up the University of Pisa are connected to one another via a private fibre network owned
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