Newsletter

Next Scheduled Maintenance on Marconi on Feb 7th

Dear Users, in order to fix a few issues  in the present version of the SLURM scheduler, we have planned a maintenance on the full Marconi system next week, on […]

Marconi: GPFS problems solved

Dear Users, the problems on Marconi’s filesystems have been solved and the cluster is now back to full production. Best regards, HPC User Support @ CINECA

Marconi: GPFS problems

Dear Users, we are experiencing access problems to Marconi’s filesystems ($HOME, $WORK, $CINECA_SCRATCH), and the login nodes are temporarily unresponsive. We will inform you as soon as the cluster will […]

Marconi: new Skylake nodes available for academic users

Dear Users, This is to inform you that starting from tomorrow, February 2nd 2018, 792 Skylake nodes will be available to academic users for their production runs. Users that are […]

IXPUG Annual Spring Conference 2018, March 5-7, 2018 Cineca, Italy – REMINDER

Dear Users, we remind you of this meeting which is taking place in Cineca, Bologna, in March. The Intel eXtreme Performance Users Group (IXPUG) is an active community-led forum for sharing […]

Marconi Users Guide and Modules

Dear Users, A new updated version of the HPC Users’ Guide is available on line with more information and updates about the new SLURM scheduler of Marconi: https://wiki.u-gov.it/confluence/display/SCAIUS/HPC+User+Guide In addition, […]

Pico – virtual machines hard reboot

Dear users, due to some techincal issues on Pico system, in order to use again the virtual machines you have to performe a “hard reboot” (“riavvio istanza a freddo”) from […]

MARCONI – scheduled maintenance completed

Dear Users, The scheduled maintenance operations on Marconi are now complete. Please recall that a new queueing system is in place (SLURM) and therefore modify your jobscipt according to information […]

Reminder: Marconi stop tomorrow

Dear Users, We kindly remind you all that Marconi cluster will be stopped tomorrow, January 23rd 2018, for scheduled maintenance operations. The stop will start at 8 a.m and will […]

PICO: end of production phase for academic users

Dear Users, This is to inform you that PICO cluster will be off production for academic users starting from Wednesday January, 24th 2018. Accordingly, jobs submission on PICO will be stopped […]