Marconi: check completed on work and scratch filesystems

Dear Users, the filesystem checks completed without showing any error or file corruption. Best regards HPC User Support @ CINECA

Marconi: access problems to work and scratch filesystems

Dear Users, yesterday (starting from 6:30 pm) an unexpected failure of Marconi storage system caused input/output errors on /marconi_work and /marconi_scratch filesystems. Any activity and job implying the access to […]

Marconi: operation completed

Dear Users, the operation on the network switches has completed. Unfortunately unexpected failure of the scratch filesystem occurred, and some job could have been affected. We are sorry for the […]

MARCONI: system operation on network switches – DELAYED

Dear Users, the system maintenance operation in object (discussed in this morning’s HPC-news) has been delayed of a couple of hours. It will then start approximately at 4 pm.   […]

MARCONI: a “cron” procedure killing jobs with wrong requests

Dear Users, a new procedure has been put into action to check the resource requests in submitted jobs on Marconi. If the requests are not correct: ( ncpus > 36 ) […]

MARCONI: system operation on network switches

Dear Users, a system operation is required on one of the “Director Switches” of the MARCONI internal network. It should not result in any production interruption, but some job crash could […]

PICO: scheduled down for enforcing the quotas for the home areas

Dear Users, next month (Sep 6, 2016) we are scheduling a down of PICO for enforcing the quota values for the user home directories. At present no quotas are defined and […]

Voltage-sensor conformation shapes the intra-membrane drug binding site that determines gambierol affinity in Kv channels

Kopljar, I; Grottesi, A (Cineca); et al. Marine ladder-shaped polyether toxins are implicated in neurological symptoms of fish-borne food poisonings. The toxin gambierol, produced by the marine dinoflagellate Gambierdiscus toxicus, […]

Integrated Energy-Aware Management of Supercomputer Hybrid Cooling Systems

Conficoni, C; Bartolini, A; Tilli, A; Cavazzoni, C (Cineca); Benini, L. Advanced cooling systems and optimization strategies are critical to operate modern supercomputers and high-performance computing systems in an energy-efficient […]

MARCONI: “cindata” command now available

Dear Users, now the “cindata” command is available on MARCONI. It is useful to check the status of you storage areas, your quotas and quantity of data contained. Enter “cindata […]