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20 February 2023
The visit of Spack developers Culpo and Stoppels ended with success!
The HPC staff of CINECA thanks the Spack developers Massimiliano Culpo and Harmen Stoppels for their visit at our premises in Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna). During the two-day Spack event on February 13-14, Culpo and Stoppels delivered a comprehensive tutorial course followed by a mini-hackathon on Spack, the package manager for software configuration and installation on multiple platforms.
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16 January 2023
CINECA GPU HACKATHON 2023 - REGISTRATION OPEN
We are happy to announce that the registration is now open for CINECA GPU-HACKATHON-2023.
The CINECA GPU Hackathon is a digital event, and it will be held on 12 June 2023 and on June 19-20-21 2023.
The Application Deadline is 9 April 2023.
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15 December 2022
Leonardo upgrade "Lisa" officially approved
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has recently approved Cineca expression of interest for upgrading Leonardo supercomputer, targeting an increase of 100 PFlops of computing capacity: upgrade named Lisa, after the universally known portrait Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
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14 November 2022
LEONARDO ranked 4th in the Top500 list
The CINECA's supercomputer LEONARDO, jointly funded by EuroHPC and CINECA on behalf of Italian Ministry of University and Research, reached the 4th position in the Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world. This milestone rewards CINECA’s 50-year commitment to supporting research through HPC, and confirms Italy's role as a strategic asset in the building of the European HPC ecosystem.
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09 November 2022
LEONARDO: call for early access
The call for early access to Leonardo Supercomputer is already open. This call aims to provide selected users early access to the EuroHPC Leonardo exascale precursor system.
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11 October 2022
Very high-resolution climate projection over Italy run on GALILEO100
A new important dataset is now available on the Highlander Data Delivery System platform: Dynamical Downscaling with COSMO-CLM of historical (1989/2005) and future climate (2006/2050).
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26 September 2022
Discovering the world of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
What is it and does it pay off? In this new podcast series, we are discovering the world of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Our mixed team with representatives from the Horizon 2020 projects EOSC-Pillar and SSHOC projects will talk about the present and future of EOSC. From the vision - to the mission - to the reality - with a focus on the latter.
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01 July 2022
Leonardo's website is online
The website of the supercomputer Leonardo is online. On the website you will find: technical information about Leonardo, news, updates about the installation, photos, a virtual tour, curiosities, and more!
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17 June 2022
Job positions open at CINECA HPC department
CINECA has opened 30 + 5 senior new job positions in High-Performance Computing.
Deadline: 1st Aug 2022.
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10 June 2022
Highlander Data Delivery System platform is online with version 0.4
The Highlander Data Delivery System platform is online with version 0.4. Currently, the platform hosts two sections: Datasets and Applications.
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27 April 2022
SEBASTIEN, large-scale ICT-based services to support smart livestock farming
Cineca is increasingly engaged in the sector of smart agriculture. Besides Highlander, Cineca is now involved in SEBASTIEN project, that aims to implement large-scale ICT based services to support smart livestock farming and management in order to better face climate change challenges and other environmental stressors.
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22 April 2022
Summer of HPC 2021 winners
CINECA's students Mario Gaimann and Raska Soemantoro just won the 2021 SoHPC Best Performance Award, with theie project "Automated Classification for Mapping submarine structures by Artificial Intelligence strategies" (project 2111). The two students worked in collaboration with OGS, NOC and CINECA, as well as the DPC-MaGIC Project.
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