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PRACE completes phase I of Pre-Commercial Procurement

PRACE started this PCP to obtain R&D services which should result in future PRACE HPC systems to become more energy efficient. Phase I of PCP was completed on 9 March 2015. During Phase I, Bull, E4, Maxeler and Megware explored the various possible solutions. These have now been invited to bid for Phase II during which prototypes for the three most promising solutions will be built.

GALILEO – Temporary limitation of production

Dear Users, due to the need for assessing the peak performance capability of the new platform, Galileo, a massive test will run tomorrow 13th March. It will limit the number […]

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EUDAT2020: Research Data Made Simple

Enabling European researchers and practitioners from any research discipline to preserve, find, access, and process data in a trusted environment.
Cineca is member of EUDAT2020 an European project, which is the follow-up of the previous EUDAT project, just ended. Cineca will be work package leader (WP7) and task leader in the development and operation work packages.

PRACE Summer of HPC 2015 – Deadline Extended

Dear users, This is to inform you that PRACE has decided to extend the deadline for subscription at the “Summer of HPC” up to March 15th. Summer of HPC is […]

GALILEO – Temporary limitation of production

Dear Users, due to the need for assessing the peak performance capability of the new platform, Galileo, a battery of tests will be executed in the next few days. The […]

Fermi back to production after today’s maintenance operations

Dear Users, the scheduled maintenance operations are over and Fermi cluster is back to production. Best regards HPC User Support @ CINECA

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Big success of the Italian scientific community in PRACE

The 10th PRACE Regular Call for Proposals yielded 127 eligible proposals of which 48 were awarded for a total of close to 1.0 thousand million core hours. The 48 awarded projects are led by P. I. from 13 different European countries, 1 from Australia and 2 from the USA.
11 awarded projects have PI from Italy (23% of projects) for a total of 286 million core hours (27% of hours).

PBS on Galileo

Dear Users, Currently, PBS server on Galileo is not allowing jobs submission. We are working to bring the service back to production as soon as possible. We apologize for the […]

International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2015)

Dear all, You are cordially invited to participate in and attend the 2015 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation to be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 20 […]

Fermi stop on March 6th

Dear Users, Fermi cluster will be stopped on March 6th for maintenance operations. The stop will start in the early morning. During this operation you will not be able to […]