The largest university data center in Italy in Pisa

(ANSA) – PISA, APR 16 – At the forefront in Europe, expanded, strengthened and sustainable: The Green Data center of the University of Pisa doubles to “support – explains the University – the new challenges in the field of scientific research and of teaching and to support the digital transition of the territory. leap into the future sanctioned with a symbolic cutting of the ribbon” which today officially inaugurated the new room of the Data Center of San Pietro a Grado: it is now made available to the Pisan University community 38 additional racks which, added to the 66 already present in the structure, bring their total to 104. Numbers which, it is explained, “make it the largest university Data Center in Italy, as well as being the only one to have obtained the ‘A’ classification from Agid.

“The University of Pisa aspires to a cutting-edge position in the development of digitalisation processes, necessary to better face the new challenges in training, research and technological transfer. In this, the investment made in the University’s Green Data center it is strategic for us – comments the rector Riccardo Zucchi – The expansion of this structure allows us to make a leap in quality in high-level competitive projects and in frontier contexts, such as 5G, Artificial Intelligence, quantum computing or the topic of high performance computing in the context of the National Center financed in the Pnrr”. The expansion of the Green Data center will allow “a significant increase – it is further explained – the computing power available to UniPi’s scientific research which, currently, can already count on around 700 nodes for a total of around 30K computing cores and more of 100 GPUs of various generations. The expansion of the data center will also have positive effects on the territory. All with a strong focus on environmental sustainability. “With the development of the University’s Green Data center – it is also explained -, our ability to support the digitalisation processes” also of the territory “is strengthened, consolidating what is the ‘UniPi model’ of digital transition, in which our The University makes its infrastructure and strong skills in the ICT field available to the local area.” (HANDLE). .