MACC welcomes the Sustainable HPC project
The Minho Advanced Computing Center (MACC) welcomed Sustainable HPC, a new project focused on making the operation of supercomputing more sustainable.
This project is focused on developing an innovative energy management solution that allows a more sustainable operation of a supercomputer. With a financing of 7.3 million euros, managed by the Ministry of the Environment, the supercomputer Deucalion, to be installed at MACC, will be able to work in the most sustainable way possible.
MACC embraced this project that analyzes the level of emissions from available electricity, locally generated or not, to satisfy the machine’s needs and so, minimize the carbon footprint of the computational process.
The Sustainable HPC project is in line with the National Strategy for Advanced Computing and intends to place Portugal in an international leadership position in advanced sustainable computing.
The Sustainable HPC incentives contract was signed at the 2021 edition of Encontro Ciência, which took place from the 28th to the 30th of June – by the Innovation Fund, the Energy Efficiency Fund, INESC TEC and INEGI.
About Deucalion
Deucalion is the new EuroHPC green supercomputer in Portugal. Deucalion will be capable of a peak performance of 10 Petaflops. The machine will be equipped with the groundbreaking Fujitsu ARM A64FX processors, last generation AMD x86 processors and last generation NVidia GPUs.
