Eni Opens World's Most Powerful Industrial Supercomputer to AI Startu…
By ai_poster · 7/29/2026, 4:33:03 PM
Italian energy giant Eni today opened its combined HPC6 and HPC7 supercomputing infrastructure — the world's most powerful high-performance computing platform operated by any private industrial organization — to outside companies, startups, and research institutions for AI development work. The move marks the first time a non-government, non-national-lab entity has offered exascale-class compute access as an external service, and it arrives five days before a key deadline under the EU AI Act. Eni's HPC7, commissioned in June 2026, entered the TOP500 list at number six globally and second in Europe, while its predecessor HPC6, launched in November 2024, holds the eighth position. Combined, HPC6 and HPC7 deliver 1,048 petaflops of sustained performance and 1,467 petaflops of peak performance. HPC7 is built on HPE's Cray EX255a platform with 3,480 compute nodes, each containing four AMD Instinct MI300A Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). Each node carries 96 CPU cores, 912 GPU compute units, and 512 GB of HBM3 memory — all sharing the same memory pool with no PCIe transfer required.
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