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The historic University of Pisa partners with Vertiv to scale its cutting-edge data centre infrastructure and enable high-performance computing, all while improving energy efficiency and operational flexibility.
University of Pisa employs V Solutions for its Hybrid Gre
With international prestige, the University of Pisa is a public institution with 20 departments and high-level research centres in various sectors, including agriculture, astrophysics, computer science, engineering, medicine and veterinary medicine. Established in 1343, the university has strong connections with renown institutes, cultural institutions and industries, particularly in the field of Information Technology.
In 2016, the University of Pisa embarked on a project to develop a new data centre building called The Green Datacenter. Vertiv was chosen to supply the critical infrastructure, and the successful project implementation led to a solid technical and strategic relationship with the university.
Challenge
More recently, the university turned to Vertiv to expand its data centre and support high-performance( HPC) computing applications.
Known as‘ The Hybrid Green Data Center Expansion’, the project aims to scale the existing data centre infrastructure and deploy HPC applications by utilising the available wing of the building.
The challenge was to maintain the original design and user interface while incorporating new technological elements that meet the evolving HPC needs and support high operational flexibility.
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