Computing Resources

The most ambitious ideas need room to become reality. IFAB gives innovators access to a unique infrastructure ecosystem in Europe, from proprietary computing resources to some of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, all the way to quantum computing, to turn visions into concrete, scalable, market-ready solutions.

IFAB is an active partner in IT4LIA AI Factory and EuroCC Italy, two leading national and European high-performance computing initiatives. Through these projects, companies, startups and institutions can access EuroHPC resources hosted and operated by CINECA: the pre-exascale supercomputer Leonardo, co-funded in equal shares by the European Union, through the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, and the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR); its upgrade, LISA; the GAIA cloud system; the new AI-dedicated IT4LIA supercomputer, quantum computing resources.
These are public infrastructures, backed by European and national investment. They can be used to train AI models, develop data-driven applications and run high-impact experiments, with consulting, technical and project support from the IFAB team.

IFAB is an active member of the Innovate consortium — an advanced computing infrastructure dedicated to developing projects in collaboration with businesses. Hosted at the DAMA Tecnopolo Data Manifattura in Emilia-Romagna, LEED Gold certified and interconnected through an 800 GbE Ethernet network, it provides separate HPC and cloud partitions, high-performance storage and full energy sustainability.
Available resources:

• GPU: 11 units optimised for AI/ML: large-scale model training, fine-tuning and inference.
• CPU: 8-10 units for distributed orchestration, federated learning and complex event processing.
• Data Lake: 410 TB of high-performance storage for training datasets and model repositories.
• CEPH: 41 TB of distributed storage for virtual disks and persistent volumes.

IFAB is already operational in quantum computing, with active projects and consolidated expertise. A strategic frontier for businesses ready to explore the potential of quantum technologies from optimising complex processes to applied research — with direct access to quantum systems hosted at the DAMA Tecnopolo Data Manifattura in Emilia-Romagna.