What does Leonardo’s davinci-1 supercomputer do
Davinci-1: all the details on the HPC (High Performance Computer) of the Leonardo group
Leonardo's innovation passes from the Genoa-Turin axis and above all from the davinci-1 supercomputer.
On 1 December the CEO of Leonardo Alessandro Profumo presented the Genoa competence center dedicated to the digitalization of industry.
Defined by Profumo the "beating heart" of Leonardo, the "digital basis of everything we do". It is about the possibility of technological independence, “we think of the ability to work with big data, we think of augmented reality, we think of artificial intelligence, which“ is absolutely fundamental ”.
A fundamental component of the new center of competence in Genoa for digitization is the High Performance Computer davinci-1, Leonardo's super computer.
Furthermore, also during the week Leonardo was in Turin for the Aerospace & Defense meetings where the aerospace city project was launched.
The Piedmont Region has launched a one billion euro project with Leonardo and Avio Aero. In the Corso Marche area in Turin, a technological and training center will be created with the incubator for startups in the aerospace sector.
All the details.
LEONARDO ACCELERATES ON DIGITIZATION, AEROSPACE, DEFENSE WITH THE POLE OF INDUSTRIAL COMPETENCE IN GENOA
Leonardo – underlines the company – "accelerates on digitization, aerospace, defense and security" even so, in Genoa, with the national industrial competence center.
Among the main skills of the Genoa hub: High Performance Computing, cloud, big data, artificial intelligence, cyber security and cyber resilience, urgent computing, robotics.
THE ROLE OF TRACKERS
From Profumo also “thanks also to a person who is not here today, who gave us the idea two years ago”. The reference is to Minister Roberto Cingolani, who in Leonardo had assumed a leading role for technological innovation, and who two years ago presented the road map adopted by the company in Genoa.
WHAT LEONARDO'S SUPERCOMPUTER DOES
Leonardo's drive for digitalization – in line with the Be Tomorrow 2030 strategic plan – is based on and develops from the synergy of key skills and infrastructures starting from the HPC (High Performance Computer) davinci-1.
In Genoa, in the Fiumara Tower, the Italian giant has installed the davinci-1, Leonardo's new supercomputer included in the top 100 in the world for computing power and performance. The Piazza Monte Grappa company has invested 8 million euros in the supercomputer.
The supercomputer will count on a battery of over one hundred supercomputing units, for a total computing power exceeding 5PFlops (5 million billion floating point operations per second), connected by a high-performance network and a storage system equipped with latest hardware and software technologies, for a storage capacity of the order of 20Pbytes (20 million Gigabytes).
Leonardo's davinci1 High Performance Computer is equipped with an architecture that integrates the flexibility of the cloud with the capabilities of supercomputing and technologies in the field of cybersecurity.
START UP A NETWORK OF MAXI COMPUTERS
On the front of mega computers, "We intend – said Carlo Cavazzoni, head of Hpc ( High performance computing ) at Leonardo – to create a federation, at national level, among super-computing machines, so that they can be used together in case of emergencies, such as the pandemic, with a view to seeking a potential cure, or other (cyber attacks on critical infrastructures, ed ). In this way, there will be the possibility of having all the computing power existing on the national territory. Thanks to software technologies, linked to cloud computing, in principle it will be possible to federate the machines, for example, of Cineca, Eni and Leonardo and let them run applications that will respond to systemic crises "as reported by Il Sole 24 Hours .
DAVINCI-1 TOGETHER WITH MARCONI, HPC4, HPC5 AND FRANKLIN
Cavazzoni then recalled the super computers destined to join this federation: "There is Davinci-1 in Genoa, there is the machine, in Bologna, of Cineca, which is a computer called Marconi, but it will be surpassed , soon, by a new machine, even more powerful than ours, which will be called Leonardo and is co-financed by the Italian government and the EU, the result of the Europ Hpc project. The others are those of Eni, called Hpc4 and Hpc5, in Pavia; and then another in Genoa: that of the IIT, called Franklin, which is a bit smaller, with “ n -1 ” technology compared to Davinci ”reports the Confindustria newspaper.
DIGITAL TWIN, THE NEW FRONTIER OF INDUSTRY
Furthermore, during the meeting in Genoa, the company underlined that the frontier of the digitalization of the Ad & S industry "is represented by the creation of digital twins of its platforms and technologies to accelerate the design, improve the performance, optimize maintenance in a predictive key, increase simulation potential (up to the possibility of certification by simulation in the aerospace sector) and virtualize training ".
The modeling of the behavior of products such as aircraft, both fixed-wing and rotary-wing, through big data, numerical simulation are for Leonardo “the most advanced point in this direction”.
An example is to create the digital twin of a helicopter: a large machine made up of many parts – blades and rotors, as well as an electrical and hydraulic system – on which to analyze the interactions with the air as well as the resistance of the material or the electrical voltages in the internal circuits. Billions of parameters in continuous transformation.
MAINTENANCE BENEFITS
The Italian defense and aerospace giant noted that "the use of these techniques in the analysis of flight data has made it possible, for example, to develop advanced applications for the management of helicopter fleets (about 5,000 units worldwide) that optimize performance and maintenance activities ". Maintenance "takes a decisive step towards predictive maintenance" and "remote support capabilities" through collaborative digital platforms also based on augmented reality devices.
AT THE BASE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW GENERATION OF AIRCRAFT
The combination of all these skills, added Leonardo, "is at the basis of the development of the new generation of aircraft conceived as a 'system of systems' capable of high interconnection with other systems and interoperability even with unmanned platforms". Like the Tempest project, the sixth generation air combat system Leonardo is working on together with Bae Systems, Rolls-Roys and Mbda.
THE PRODUCTION CHAIN IS ALSO INTERESTED
But "the numerical simulation combined with data analysis in the perspective of the digital twin also affects the production chains". In this direction, Leonardo recalled that he is carrying out "a project of digitization and interconnection of the design and production processes of the production line of ATR aircraft" at the Pomigliano d'Arco plant, near Naples.
LEONARDO LABS ADVANCE
The Leonardo Labs, the group's technology incubators dedicated to research, spread throughout Italy and around the world, are proceeding swiftly.
Considered a strategic asset for the former Finmeccanica, Leonardo Labs represent the long-term Research and Development network with the highest innovative content, focused on eight research areas and involving about 60 young researchers. Over the next two years they will become 200.
Three of these Labs are in Genoa, in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Technology.
THE PROJECT OF THE CITY OF SPACE IN TURIN
Finally, also during the week Leonardo was present in Turin on the occasion of the Defense and Aerospace Meetings, the appointment that every two years brings together companies in the sector from all over the world in the Piedmontese capital.
On the opening day, the president of the Piedmont Region Cirio presented the Aerospace Citadel project that will involve companies such as Leonardo and Avio Aero.
An investment of over one billion euros is foreseen, “resources that almost all come from the NRP” underlines La Stampa . “The majority (53%) will concern public and general interest functions, such as the teaching buildings of the Polytechnic, scientific research laboratories, experimentation with new ground and flight technologies, the Space Center and the Aeronautics Museum. 28% of the funds will be used for residences, offices, commerce, accommodation facilities and professional training, 11% for start-up incubators and accelerators and 8% for new corporate infrastructures ".
WHAT THE DIRECTOR OF THE AIRCRAFT DIVISION OF THE FORMER FINMECCANICA SAID
“Here we want to carry out industrial development” underlined Marco Zoff, Managing director of Leonardo's Aircraft Division. “For Leonardo, Piedmont has important numbers, with 400 supply chain suppliers, 250 of which are highly qualified, 1,200 direct and indirect employees. In the area of Corso Marche we have the heart of our laboratories which will have the task of maintaining levels of excellence for the next 30-50 years ".
“The goal is to accelerate technology transfer and strengthen the industrial system that revolves around big players, in addition to Leonardo, Thales Alenia Space, Avio Aero, Altec, Collins Aerospace” highlights Il Sole 24 Ore .
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/che-cosa-fa-il-supercomputer-davinci-1-di-leonardo/ on Sun, 05 Dec 2021 07:00:03 +0000.