Backup and archiving issues solved

Dear Users, this is to inform that backup and cart archiving operations on PLX, and cart archiving operations on Eurora, are now fully functioning again. Regards, HPC User Support @ […]

Call for proposals for PRACE Preparatory Access

Dear Users, this is to announce the opening of the Call for proposal for PRACE preparatory access. The Preparatory Access Call is a rolling call, researchers can apply for access […]

Backup and archiving issues

Dear Users, this is to inform that, currently, backup and cart archiving operations on PLX are suspended. On Eurora this issue is only for cart archiving operations. On Fermi both […]

Cineca is present at the HBP Summit 2013

At the Human Brain Project Summit October 7 – 11, 2013, scientists got together to kick off 12 subprojects, or areas of study. The Human Brain Project will bring together 80 universities and thousands of scientists in an unprecedented collaborative effort.

FERMI reconfirmed among the highest positions in the TOP500

The Italian supercomputer FERMI, IBM Blue Gene/Q, is now number 15 in the November 2013 Top500 list.
Fermi, available to the Italian and European scientific community by ISCRA and PRACE, was installed at Cineca in June 2012.
Two Cineca systems, FERMI and PLX, are ranked in the list.

re-boot of PBS scheduler on PLX cluster

Dear PLX User, the PBS job scheduler on PLX cluster will be re-boot shortly. It is expected a short period of non-activity of the submission system. Best Regards HPC UserSupport […]

Problems on PLX: jobs failure

Dear Users, this morning, at around 7 a.m., due to some problems on one of the filesystems and to the consequent interruption of the Infiniband connection, the jobs running on […]

EURORA: modification of memory requirement for jobs

Dear Users, most of the nodes on Eurora cluster are equipped with 16 GB of RAM. However, to guarantee the stability of the nodes, jobs can ask only up to […]

Workshop on Advanced Techniques for Scientific Programming and Management of Open Source Software Packages and LAMMPS Users and Developers Workshop & Symposium

Dear Users, for your information. Regards, HPC User Support @ CINECA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Workshop on Advanced Techniques for Scientific Programming and Management of Open Source Software Packages 10-21 March 2014 followed […]

Visit Cineca’s booth (#3143-3243) at SC13 in Denver

Also this year we’ll be present at Supercomputing 2013 in Denver, Colorado, at booth #3143-3243.

Meet our HPC experts for an overview of our activities and for talking about new opportunities of collaboration and services.

Visit us November 18 to 21 and we’ll tell you about the perspectives of development of HPC in Cineca and offer you a little taste of Italian excellence!