The democratization of high performance computing (HPC) and the converged datacenter have been topics of late in the IT community. This is where HPC, high performance data analytics (big data/Hadoop workloads), and enterprise office applications all run on a common clustered compute architecture with a single file system and network. And, while the IT community is talking about convergence, Banca d’Italia (Bank of Italy) has already moved in that direction with new compute and storage clusters based on Intel Xeon processors and Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre software. Bank of Italy is the national central bank, like the U.S. Federal Reserve. In the Bank, the Directorate General for Economics, Statistics and Research (DG-ESR) had developed together with the Directorate General for Information Technology a 12-node cluster to run its scientific computing applications—SAS, Stata, Modeleasy, Matlab and others—for economic analysis and simulations. The results are made available to the employees of the DG-ESR, who could then use them in various reports, presentations, and recommendations to the Bank’s managers, the nation’s financial institutions, and other counterparties interested in the data. Learn more at https://www.hpcwire.com/2016/10/10/bank-italy-converges-hpc-enterprise-office-new-cluster/