Petrobras buys five new supercomputers for R$500 million

Brazilian state-owned Petrobras announces purchase of five new supercomputers R$ 500 million investmentThe operation is part of the company’s strategy to modernize and update its own technology park.

According to the official statement; One of the purchased High Performance Computers (HPCs) costs only R$435 million. He would do the job”equivalent to about 10 million mobile phones and 200 thousand laptops” and all new equipment is expected to be operational by 2025.

This model weighs approximately 50 tons, is 50 meters long and has a performance of 73 PFlops; one petaflop is equivalent to 1 quadrillion operations per second.

The new computers that won the tender were purchased from Lenovo, part of the company’s strategic plan for the years 2024-2028. The Fênix, Atlas and Dragão models currently in operation will be closed and replaced by the most modern HPC.

Use of supercomputers at Petrobras

HPC will now be used exclusively by Petrobras geophysicists. Process seismic data and create detailed images of the subsurface in less time.

The purpose of these 3D studies find possible oil and gas reserves difficult to evaluate with other instruments or current data processing. This equipment is particularly useful for evaluation”ultra-deep waters and new exploration areas” Lower risk for professionals and precision in identifying usable items.

Founded in 2022, Pegaso also processes geophysical data and needs to remain operational.

Petrobras is a reference in Latin America for computational capacity and sustainable efficiency in the field of supercomputers. The company has held the continental leadership in Top500.org’s ranking of the world’s strongest HPC analytics for the last four years.