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Supercomputing Conference 2017
HPC for RE Meeting
An overview of ENEA activities on Renewable Energies
Andrea Quintiliani
ENEA – Energy Technologies Department – ICT Division Denver, Nov. 14, 2017
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ENEA’s mission
• ENEA is the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
• It is a Governmental Research and Technology Organization operating in the fields of energy, environment and new technologies to support Italy’s competitiveness and sustainable development
• ENEA’s mission is to develop new technological solutions to meet the societal challenges, fostering the transition to a low carbon economy
• ENEA is in charge of disseminating and transfer knowledge, innovation and technologies to industry, institutions and civil society at large
Research facilities and staff
Human Resources
2500 permanent staff:
•36,4% women •58,6% graduates 100 non permanent staff
Research facilities
• 9 Research Centres • 5 Research Laboratories • 11 territorial offices • Brussels Liaison Office • Headquarters in Rome
Foggia Laboratory
Research and Development
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•CSP and thermal solar energy, including thermal energy storage
•Photovoltaics and smart grids
•Energy efficiency technologies, including efficient conversion and use of energy, electric energy storage
•Bioenergy, biorefinery and greenchemostry
•Smart energy & smart cities
•Sustainable mobility
•Advanced energy materials
•Sustainable use of fossil fuels
•ICT
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•Fusion
•Fission (new gen)
•Radiation protection
•Nuclear safety &
security
•Ionizing/non
ionizing radiation applications
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•Resource efficiency
•Environmental technologies
•Climate change:
modeling, adaptation and mitigation
•Prevention and Recovery
•Seismic and natural hazards assessment and prevention
•Bio and nanotechs
•Agrifood
Experimental Physics
World Record of plasma density with Frascati Torus and Frascati Torus Upgrade (two high magnetic field tokamaks)
Fusion Theory
Among first to formalize a predictive plasma model (“first principle code”, excellence recognized by US SciDAC)
Remote Maintenance
New unique technology to perform optical measurements in extreme environments (i.e. high radiation, low accessibility)
High Heat Flux Technology
World record of Critical heat flux (35 MW/m2, twice as much as
rocket engine power at take off)
Fusion Fuel Cycle
Neutronics
Breakthrough in fuel cycle technology allowing reduction in inventory of factor 3x-4x through improved tritium recovery and separation
Worldwide reference Lab on neutron database for: neutron shielding, tritium breeder and diagnostic design
Super-
Conductivity World record:80 kA in a 43 mm dia cable ( sufficient for 8000
houses)
Fusion
Energy Technologies Department
Photovoltaics and Smart Network
New generation PV systems and concentrated photovoltaic (CPV)
New PV materials: Thin film, high-efficiency PV cells, organic photovoltaics
Smart Grids and use services of RES in electricity distribution grids
Thermal and Thermodynamic Solar Division
Research Facility with linear parabolic collectors and molten salts heat pipes (ENEA patented technology)
Optimization of solar collectors (low-medium temperature), development of components and systems for solar cooling
Bioenergy, Biorefinery and Green Chemistry
•Production of syngas from agricultural waste, from biomass, as well as chemicals
•Production of bio-fuels from micro-algae
Efficient Production, Conversion and Use of Energy •Electrochemical systems for the conversion and storage of hydrogen energy, supercapacitors
•Co-generation systems, fuel cells, new materials, high-efficiency lithium batteries
•Sustainable use of fossil fuels (CCS)
•Sustainable mobility
Smart Energy
•Smart public lighting
•Smart cities
•Smart Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) and demand-response systems
ICT
High Performance Computing
•R&D on ICT networks and applications
Assets
• Facilities: labs; high-tech instrumentation; pilot, test and experimental plants among the most advanced in Italy and Europe
• High-level scientific and technological expertise on cutting-edge technologies
• Multidisciplinary approach: research entails a wide range of disciplines (physics, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, biology, genetics, genomics, agronomy, computer science, statistics, economics, etc.)
• Qualified research teams: excellence is demonstrated by the number of patents, publications, and EU projects
• International environment: ENEA hosts researchers and fellowships from Asia, Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Middle East and North Africa
• Strong industrial cooperation: Ansaldo, Archimede Solar Power, Angelantoni, ENEL, FIAT, General Electric, Toshiba
ENEA - ICT Division
ENEA’s ICT Division (DTE-ICT) is in charge of the planning, development and management of ICT technologies in support to its R&D activities. In the framework of this general mission, DTE-ICT:
guarantees the operation of hardware and software infrastructures for scientific computing, geographical data networks, their connection to national and international networks, local area networks, and related services such as databases, multimedia services, centralized backup services, supporting services to scientific users;
carries out R&D activities in the domains of distributed and high performance computing, ultra-high throughput data networks, interoperability of heterogeneous systems such as large scientific instruments and scientific laboratories, and on specific industry-driven applications.
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ENEA HPC resources are integrated into ENEAGRID
The main computing facilities are CRESCO clusters (~165
Tflops)
Scientific/Technical Software
Annual reports: http://www.cresco.enea.it/CRESCO_reports/
ENEA HPC infrastructure: ENEAGRID/CRESCO Clusters
Research area 2015
Usage (%)
Material science 55.7
Combustion 16.7
Nuclear energy 8.4
Climate 7.7
Complex systems 1.1
Biotec 0.4
Aerospace 0.3
Minor activities 9.7
Type of users 2015
Number of users
ENEA 67 (48.6 %)
ENEA contract 32 (23.2 %)
Italian Univ./Inst.
30 (21.7 %)
Foreign Univ./Inst.
5 (3.6 %)
Enterprises 4 (2.9 %)
Total 138
Cluster name (Linux x86_64)
Network Cores/Tflops
CRESCO3 AMD IB QDR 2016/~17
CRESCO4 INTEL IB QDR 4864/~100
CRESCO5 INTELv3 IB QDR 672/~25
CRESCOF AMD IB QDR 456/~4
CRESCOC AMD IB DDR 192/~1.5
K40/PHI/Large RAM IB QDR 300/~17
Total in production
~8500/~165
Q4'17 CRESCO6 SKL OPA ~10000/~700
ENEA-CINECA provisioning to EUROfusion
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ENEA–CINECA agreement for EUROfusion
The ENEA–CINECA team won a Call launched by EUROfusion, the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy, for the procurement of a several PFlops HPC system;
On July 1st, 2016 the new machine MARCONI–Fusion, exclusively devoted to studies of interest for nuclear Fusion topics, started its operations;
MARCONI-Fusion is a partition of MARCONI, CINECA’s peak facility;
An upgrade of the machine was put in place in 2017, pushing the total computational power to 5 Pflops
ENEA offers support to users in the design and
benchmark of applications to be ported on
Marconi-Fusion, and the set-up and management
of the new Gateway
ENEA and EoCoE
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In EoCoE, ENEA is coordinating the WP concerning Materials for Energy.
However, it must be taken into account that all the goals of the projects are very much in line with ENEA’s key areas of activity:
Energy, and especially the transition to reliable low carbon energy sources;
Nuclear fusion: One of the three Departments of ENEA is almost entirely devoted to it;
Climate and Water: are among the main topics addressed by the Sustainability Department.
Meteorology for energy
Materials for energy
Water for energy
Fusion for energy
