Leonardo Booster

CINECA offers Leonardo’s accelerated Booster partition for scientific research and AI workloads.

Leonardo Booster is an operational GPU cluster run by CINECA in Bologna, Italy. It has 13,824 NVIDIA A100-64 custom Ampere, 64 GiB GPUs installed.

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Verified 11 Nov 2026

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Owner / operator Organization that owns or operates the GPUs. Hosting and facility roles are listed under Partners.: CINECA 1
GPU maker NVIDIA, AMD or Intel, taken from the GPU model.: NVIDIA 1
GPU model Accelerator model or family as disclosed. A GH200 is one GPU on a superchip; an MI300A is an APU that contains a GPU.: NVIDIA A100-64 custom Ampere, 64 GiB 1
GPUs installed Physical GPUs in the cluster, from the operator or a deterministic sum of disclosed quantities (nodes × GPUs per node). Planned counts, H100-equivalents and unaudited press totals are never counted here.: 13,824 1
GPU count notes What the count covers (one partition, one site, a design limit), qualifiers and competing figures.: Derived count: 3,456 Booster nodes × 4 accelerators; CPU partition excluded. 1
Location City, region and country where the cluster sits. Empty when the operator does not name the site.: Bologna, Italy 1
Country Country of the cluster, taken from the location.: Italy 1
Live power MW Power in service, in megawatts of IT load where the source says so. Company figures are marked in the notes; Epoch AI satellite estimates are labelled as estimates.: Not published
Status operational = running and named as such by the operator or a primary source; partly operational = a phase is live and more is coming; under construction = building underway; announced = disclosed or contracted with no confirmed go-live.: operational 1
Operational since Month or year the source gives for the cluster going live (first phase for partly operational clusters). Empty when no date is published.: 2023-07 1
Status notes The source’s wording on status, with the date.: Full production since July 2023 1
Interconnect Cluster network fabric.: 200 Gbps NVIDIA Mellanox HDR InfiniBand, Dragonfly+ 1
Compute nodes nodes Compute nodes in the system or partition.: 3,456 1

Sources

docs.hpc.cineca.it accessed 2026-11-11

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