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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
19 December 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.

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