Two new quantum computers have gone live in Italy.
ICSC – the National Research Centre in High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing – this month inaugurated the two systems, as well as several other HPC clusters, at the CINECA headquarters of the DAMA Tecnopolo in Bologna.
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The Lisa, Gaia, Marco Polo, Nox, and Sol systems were all officially put into operation at the ceremony, attended by Minister of University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini, and other dignitaries.
Developed by Bull, Lisa is an upgrade to the existing Leonardo supercomputer. The system was co-funded by the EuroHPC JU and designed to support the development of next-generation models, from large language models to multimodal AI.
