GAIA, the new large-scale HPC Cloud Infrastructure for research, is available in pre-production

Dear Users, 

We are happy to announce that GAIA, the CINECA’s large-scale HPC Cloud Infrastructure for scientific and technological research, is now available in pre-production.

GAIA combines cloud flexibility with High Performance Computing power.

Hosted at CINECA Dama Technopole in Bologna, it supports data processing, analysis and data management services, sensitive workloads, and Kubernetes-based deployment and orchestration.

Based on OpenStack virtualization tool version Epoxy, available via the Horizon dashboard at https://cloud.gaia.cineca.it, it includes 500 Dell servers with over 130,000 physical cores and 256 NVIDIA GPUs. The storage includes 10 PB raw Ceph and 50 PB full-flash VAST system, suitable for HPC-and-cloud synergy. 

GAIA operates under an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model: CINECA manages hardware and virtualization, while users control their environments. 

The system empowers researchers with scalable, customizable, and high-performance resources. 

An overview of the GAIA technical features is available at the url [1]. 

For any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us. 

Best regards HPC User Support @ CINECA 

 
[1] GAIA specifics:  https://docs.hpc.cineca.it/cloud/systems/gaia.html#gaia-card