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

Then the Summer of HPC is for you!

Summer of HPC is a PRACE programme that offers summer placements at CINECA or an other HPC centres across Europe, in a PRACE partner country.
Applications open at January 25th and close at 17th February 2013.

Scratch problems on Fermi solved

Dear users, The problem on the SCRATCH area has been fixed. However, two midplanes on Fermi are temporarly in draining. We apologize for the inconvenience Regards HPC User Support @ […]

Problems in accessing the scratch filesystem on Fermi

Dear Users, we are experiencing problems in the scratch filesystem on Fermi  which started in the week-end. Currently the scratch area is not fully operational, we are in the process […]

CINECA_DATA filesystem back in RW mode

Dear Users, the upgrade of the storage system at CINECA has been successfully completed and the CINECA_DATA filesystem on Fermi and PLX is now back in read/write mode. In case […]

Change in qstat output on PLX

Dear Users, due to confidentiality reasons, the PBS qstat command on PLX has been modified in order to show only your own submitted jobs, and not  those of other users. […]

New LAMMPS installation on Fermi: removed the limitation in the number of MPI processes per node

Dear Users, the LAMMPS molecular dynamics package has been recompiled on FERMI in both its MPI and MPI+OpenMP versions. The new installation now allows the full parallelism of LAMMPS to […]

Lisa, the Cineca HPC initiative specific for Regione Lombardia

LISA (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Advanced Simulation) is the HPC initiative co-funded by Regione Lombardia and Cineca: 100M hours of computing time are available for research of Lombardia Universities as well as 2 scholarships for Lombard graduates for training in the field of scientific and technical computing.

Accounting problem on FERMI

Dear Users, we inform you that, only for some accounts, an accounting problem on FERMI has been detected. It was done to a LoadLeveler error.  The budgets have been rectified […]

FERMI: Sw update to V1R1M2

Dear users, yesterday the full software stack of BlueGene/Q has been upgraded to version V1R1M2. Please find a description of the new version in the IBM Technical Document available in […]

FERMI status: up and running

Dear Users, the scheduled system update on Fermi is completed. Now the system is up and running (only two nodeboards off for hardware problems) Best regards, HPC Support @ CINECA