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New world-class European supercomputer inaugurated in Italy

The Commission, together with the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research and the CINECA consortium have inaugurated Europe's latest supercomputer: LEONARDO, located at the Bologna Technopole, in Italy.

photo of a computer room with computers on which the Leonardo logo appears, as well as the EuroHPC and the European Union flag, accompanied by the words Founded by the European Union

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LEONARDO is a world-class supercomputing system, developed and assembled in Europe. When fully operational, it will have a computing power of nearly 250 petaflops (250 million billion calculations per second). LEONARDO is currently placed as the fourth most powerful supercomputer in the world

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