News
17 July 2013
Enhancement of DFT-calculations at petascale: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Hybrid Density Functional Theory and Car–Parrinello calculations
Nicola Varini(iVEC), Davide Ceresoli(CNR-ISTM), Layla Martin-Samosh(CNR-IOM), Ivan Girotto(ICTP), Carlo Cavazzoni (Cineca)
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16 July 2013
Project EMI helps the Higgs Boson discovery
EMI is a joint effort of the major European distributed computing middleware providers (ARC, dCache, gLite, and UNICORE). This initiative introduces in Europe and beyond new functionality to satisfy user requirements specifically in: security, compute, data and information systems.
CINECA supported the development of UNICORE components within EMI and contributed to the EMI release management.
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16 July 2013
Predicting the Anchoring of Liquid Crystals at a Solid Surface: 5-Cyanobiphenyl on Cristobalite and Glassy Silica Surfaces of Increasing Roughness
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Eurotech Eurora, the PRACE prototype deployed by Cineca and INFN, scores first in Green500 list
Cineca is proud to announce that the Eurora supercomputer was ranked 1st in the June 2013 Green500 chart, with measured 3210 MFlop/s per Watt. Outstanding result for Eurotech (ranked also number 2 with Aurora Tigon), for Cineca and also for the national research centers, INFN, OGS, CNR and SISSA, that collaborated actively with Cineca testing the system.
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19 June 2013
FERMI ranked very high in the newly published TOP500 list of June 2013
The Italian supercomputer FERMI, IBM Blue Gene/Q, available to the Italian and European scientific community by ISCRA and PRACE, is now number 12 in the June 2013 Top500.
Three Cineca systems, FERMI, PLX and the new EURORA prototype are ranked in the list.
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18 June 2013
LISA CALL
The LISA call is open!
Reseachers based in a University or a Research centre in the Lombardy Region are invited to apply for a grant on the CINECA supercomputing machines.
Apply at https://userdb.hpc.cineca.it.
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05 June 2013
The Coastal Wave Forecasting System: evaluation of the first year of activity
Roberto Inghilesi (ISPRA), Francesca Catini (Cineca), Arianna Orasi (ISPRA)
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28 May 2013
PRACE Summer School on Enabling Applications on Parallel Architectures
PRACE Summer School on Enabling Applications on Parallel Architectures based on Intel® Many Integrated Core (MIC) will be held at Cineca, Bologna, Italy from July 8th to 11th, 2013
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20 May 2013
Towards the full scale CFD modeling of the Mont-Blanc tunnel ventilation system
Scai Department @ CINECA in collaboration with DIEF (Dipartimento di Ing. Enzo Ferrari, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) and the MIMESIS (fluid dynamics & energy company) is going to run, on the PLX cluster, a flexible and versatile full-scale CFD modelling strategy of the airflow in a road tunnel.
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16 May 2013