Leonardo is a petascale supercomputer located at the CINECA datacenter in Bologna, Italy.
[2] Inaugurated in November 2022, Leonardo is capable of 250 petaflops (250 quadrillion operations per second), making it one of the top five fastest supercomputers in the world.
It consists of 16 nodes, each having: 16 additional nodes are also equipped with: Leonardo will have access to two storage tiers: Leonardo is part of the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking, and receives €120 million in funding from the EU.
[12] It was built in 1952 by Pier Luigi Nervi, who was famous for his innovative use of reinforced concrete.
In addition to Leonardo, the building also houses the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts' new supercomputer, consisting of four Atos BullSequana XH2000 clusters, which replaces their earlier facility in Reading, England.