Oil and gas giant Petrobras readies Latin America's largest supercomputer

guest · Jul 25, 2022

The equipment is expected to be operating at full capacity in December
July 25, 2022

Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras has started the assembly of a new supercomputer, with a specification set to surpass the two largest computers of its kind in Latin America, which also belong to the company.

With a processing capacity equivalent to six million smartphones or 150,000 modern laptops, the Pegaso supercomputer is expected to increase the company's current processing capacity from 42 to 63 Petaflops. Pegaso has a processing capacity of 21 Petaflops, almost the sum of the supercomputers the firm currently uses, Dragon (14 Petaflops) and Atlas (8.9 Petaflops) together. The new machine is equipped with 678 terabytes of RAM and a 400 Gbps network, in addition to 2016 Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and has been designed with energy efficiency in mind.
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According to the oil and gas giant, the new supercomputer is crucial to enabling digital technology initiatives, as well as boosting operations efficiency, making the company more resilient to changing business scenarios.

Moreover, the investment in high-performance computing is intended to help Petrobras expand on the application of techniques in the processing of geophysical and geological data.
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