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23 May 2016
ISTAT and CINECA together to exploit BIG DATA
Cineca and the National Institute of Statistics ISTAT signed an agreement to perform joint research activities towards the identification and experimentation of methods and techniques for Big Data exploitation.The collaboration aims to study, develop and test new methodologies to collect and analyze huge volumes of data, taking advantage of the Cineca High Performance Data Analytics infrastructure
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02 May 2016
PRACE Autumn School opens for Applications
The PRACE Autumn School 2016 "Modern HPC Development for Scientists and Engineers" will take place on September 27-30 2016, at the Castle of Hagenberg/Linz, in Austria.
Registration Deadline: July 1, 2016.
Free of charge (not including travel and accommodation).
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20 April 2016
LISA Call: open until 2 May!
Researchers of the Universities and Research Centers based in Lombardy are invited to submit scientific projects in order to receive High Performance Resources and specialized support.
The proposals are eligible from any scientific discipline.
Deadline: 2nd May 2016
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19 April 2016
PRACE days 2016 - Registration until 29 April!
From May 10-12 2016, PRACE organise the third edition of its Scientific and Industrial Conference – PRACEdays16 – under the motto HPC for Innovation: when Science meets Industry in Prague, Czech Republic.
The conference will bring together experts from academia and industry who will present their advancements in HPC-supported science and engineering.
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14 April 2016
Cineca: Five fixed-term contract at SCAI department
CINECA announces a selection procedure for the coverage of five fixed-term contract lasting 36 months each. Submission Deadline: 29th April 2016.
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13 April 2016
MARCONI: the new Cineca supercomputer
Marconi is the new Italian class Tier-0 supercomputer, available for the Italian and European research community.
It has been co-designed by Cineca on the Lenovo NeXtScale architecture. It is equipped with the new Intel Xeon processors and it will reach a performance of about 20 PFlop/s, while maintaining a low energy consumption. Delivery is expected for mid June.
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12 April 2016
IPCEI project: Luxembourg, France, Italy and Spain signed the agreement
IPCEI (Important Project of Common European Interest) on HPC and Big Data Enabled Applications (IPCEI-HPC-BDA) intends to develop a number of real-time integrative HPC applications towards a “Smart Nation”.
CINECA, with INFN, GARR and CNR, is a core partner of the IPCEI project.
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30 March 2016
LISA: Three Research Scholarships at Cineca SCAI
CINECA announces a public selection procedure for the awarding of three research scholarships lasting 12 months each.
Submission Deadline: 29th April 2016.
(In Italian)
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30 March 2016
LISA workshop 2016: HPC & Bionformatics and Life Science
Save the Date: On April 6th at 14:00 in Milan, at Lombardy Region buildings, will take place a presentation of different services for the Lombardy research. Special track for Bioinformatics and Life Science.
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29 March 2016
Human Brain Project HBP: Public Platform Release
On 30 March 2016, the Human Brain Project is releasing the first components, services and tools of its 6 ICT Platforms to the scientific community (Neuroinformatics, Brain Simulation, High Performance Analytics and Computing, Medical Informatics, Neuromorphic Computing, Neurorobotics).
The event will be web-streamed live at 09:30 and 14:00
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22 March 2016
The ANTAREX project in HPC wins H2020 grant
The ANTAREX research project, coordinated by Cristina Silvano from Politecnico di Milano, wins a 3 million euro grant in the H2020 Future and Emerging Technologies programme on High Performance Computing. The project involves leading academic and industrial partners as well as CINECA.
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