27th Summer School on Parallel Computing

Dear Users, High Performance Computing (HPC) is widely used in many areas of science, engineering and industry to tackle problems that are very compute or data-intensive. HPC techniques are essential […]

Marconi: Scheduled maintenance on Feb. 13th

Dear Users, This is to announce that Marconi will be stopped next Monday February 13th for scheduled maintenance operations. The stop will start at 9 a.m and will end at […]

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HPC-Europa3: third call for visitors open

HPC-Europa is an EC-funded programme, coordinated by Cineca, which allows researchers to carry out short “transnational access” visits.
The third call for visitors is now open. Deadline Thursday 28th February 2018 (23:59 CET).

Marconi tomorrow maintenance postponed

Dear Users, This is to inform you that the maintenance operations on Marconi, scheduled for tomorrow Feb 7th, have been postponed to a new date to be announced. A new […]

Some pending jobs on Marconi are going to be removed

Dear Users, In order to fix issues actually affecting SLURM on Marconi, all currently pending jobs with Reason=”AssocGrpCPUMinutesLimit” will be removed straight away. Please, feel free to submit them again. […]

Scheduled maintenance updates

Dear Users, In light of the forthcoming maintenance operations scheduled next Wednesday Feb 7th, we would like to specify that this stop is aimed at fixing some issues of the […]

Next Scheduled Maintenance on Marconi on Feb 7th

Dear Users, in order to fix a few issues  in the present version of the SLURM scheduler, we have planned a maintenance on the full Marconi system next week, on […]

Marconi: GPFS problems solved

Dear Users, the problems on Marconi’s filesystems have been solved and the cluster is now back to full production. Best regards, HPC User Support @ CINECA

Marconi: GPFS problems

Dear Users, we are experiencing access problems to Marconi’s filesystems ($HOME, $WORK, $CINECA_SCRATCH), and the login nodes are temporarily unresponsive. We will inform you as soon as the cluster will […]

Marconi: new Skylake nodes available for academic users

Dear Users, This is to inform you that starting from tomorrow, February 2nd 2018, 792 Skylake nodes will be available to academic users for their production runs. Users that are […]