Galileo in full production

Dear Users, as previously announced, Galileo enters its full production phase today. All the base features have been set up to allow the start of your production, and in the […]

Want to spend the summer working at a European HPC Center?

PRACE will organize in 2015 again summer placements at CINECA or other HPC centres across Europe to late stage undergraduates and early stage postgraduate students.
Travel, accommodation and a stipend will be provided to all successful applicants.

EXTENDED Applications deadline: 15 March 2015.

GALILEO’s GPFS down for a short while

Dear users, this is to inform you that in order to do some technical operations we are going to unmount Galileo’s GPFS filesystem (scratch) for a short while. The operation […]

Galileo: upgrade of PBS scheduler complete

Dear Users, Galileo’s PBS scheduler was successfully upgraded, the queues are open again for job submission. Best regards HPC User Support @ CINECA

Work in progress on Galileo: temporary stop of queues

Dear Users, due to the upgrade to the last available release of PBS scheduler on Galileo, this afternoon the queues will be stopped, and the jobs running at the start […]

Galileo $CINECA_SCRATCH and $WORK

Dear Users, currently on Galileo $CINECA_SCRATCH and $WORK environment variables are not defined and therefore accessible only via the path /gpfs/scratch/userexternal/$USER /gpfs/work/ The  $WORK/ directories are still not created. We […]

Pre production of Galileo

Dear All, We are pleased to inform you the release of the new Tier-1 Galileo cluster, which is open for pre-production runs. All users with an active budget at this […]

GALILEO: a new Cineca Supercomputing cluster

A new computing system, named GALILEO, is now available at Cineca. The new Italian Tier-1 system for industrial and public research replaces the now obsolete but deserving PLX system. It is devoted to scientific computing on the basis of national and European proposals.
GALILEO is a IBM NeXtScale cluster accelerated with Intel Phis processors.

Galileo opening date: update

Dear Users, The finalization of the set-up of the new Tier-1 cluster, Galileo, is going through its last steps. For this reason the platform is not yet accessible, with respect […]

Annual Report 2014 published

The actual Cineca HPC report has been published and is available for download.
This second edition of the Cineca HPC Annual Report continues our commitment to offer data and information about our effort and impact in High Performance Computing on the scientific community and to share with all our stakeholders our vision and perspectives of development.