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Acquisition, delivery, installation and hardware and software maintenance of the IT4LIA AI-optimised supercomputer for the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking

The purpose of this call is to procure and deploy the IT4LIA AI-optimised supercomputer, forming the technological core of the Italian AI Factory and enhancing Europe’s capacity for advanced artificial intelligence (AI) research and innovation. 

Details

Status
Open
Reference
EUROHPC/2025/OP/0008
Publication date
6 October 2025
Opening date
Deadline model
Single-stage
Deadline date
10 November 2025, 16:00 (CET)

Description

CINECA, Italy’s national supercomputing centre, hosts Leonardo, a EuroHPC pre-exascale system ranked among the world’s top 10. Building on this foundation, CINECA will acquire the IT4LIA AI-optimised supercomputer to strengthen the European AI and HPC ecosystem. 

The new system will provide large-scale capabilities for AI model training, fine-tuning, inference, and reasoning, as well as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), model optimisation, and multi-agent simulations. 

The IT4LIA system will serve as the computational backbone of the Italian AI Factory, offering secure, high-performance resources for scientific, industrial, and public users. 

The estimated total value of the call is EUR 290,000,000, with the deadline for submission of tenders set for 10 November 2025, 16:00 (CET). 

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