Newsletter

Pico: update of login nodes

Dear Users, This is to announce that during current week Pico will undergo some software update. During the procedure, there may be some short hangs (15-20 minutes) on accessing the […]

Accounting on Marconi-A2

Dear Users, This is to announce that, starting on Wednesday March 15th 2017, the accounting will be active on Marconi A2 partition. For more info about the accounting policy at […]

REMINDER: Cloud Computing service unavailable on March 14, 2017

Dear Users, We remind you that tomorrow, March, 14th 2017 the Cloud computing service on PICO will be unavailable from 9 AM to 2 PM for updating operations. We kindly […]

Marconi completely back in production

Dear users, A2 partition of Marconi is completely back in production. The new configuration “cache/quadrant”of knl nodes has become active, as announced via email:  http://hpc.cineca.it/center_news/marconi-knl-enforcement-node-configuration-cachequadrant  Please note that Eurofusion knl […]

Marconi-KNL: enforcement of node configuration to cache/quadrant

Dear Users, as previously announced, all the MARCONI-KNL nodes in the general production queue (knlroute, serving the knldebug and knlprod) are undergoing a massive reconfiguration to be set in the […]

Cloud Computing service unavailable on March 14, 2017

Dear Users,we inform you that on March 14, 2017 the Cloud computing service on PICO will be unavailable from 9 AM to 2 PM for updating operations.We kindly ask you to shutdown […]

Cineca event: “INTRODUCTION TO MARCONI KNL CLUSTER, FOR USERS AND DEVELOPERS”

Dear Users,  Parallelization is the best (and most of the times unique) way for your software to be the most efficient, allowing you to obtain the results in the fastest […]

Marconi partially back to production

Dear Users, the production has been fully recovered on Marconi-A1 (Broadwell) partition, and partially on Marconi-A2 (KNL) partition. The restoration procedure on the KNL partition is on-going, please expect longer […]

Marconi-KNL: change in node configuration to cache/quadrant

Dear Users, following Intel suggestions, we scheduled a massive reconfiguration of all the KNL nodes in the productions queues. All nodes will gradually move from the present setting (half of […]

OPA issues on Marconi

Dear Users, due to issues of the subnet manager, the filesystems hosting $HOME, $WORK, $CINECA_SCRATCH areas are currently not available on the login and the compute nodes of both Broadwell […]