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new MaX newsletter is out

Dear Users, The lively world of MaX is now available at a glance: the new MaX newsletter has been issued and is available at this address:  http://us15.campaign-archive1.com/?u=f6d268e6623dd573c954ac5a4&id=4f9cb7… In this zero issue, […]

Help desk not available on February 28th

Dear Users, This is to inform you that tomorrow, Feb. 28th 2017, the help desk service will not be available all day due to an internal training activity. The help […]

Marconi – modules optimized for knl nodes

Dear users, some of the modules currently available on MARCONI have been recompiled and are now optimized for knl nodes. You can find the list of these modules by typing […]

Galileo: intermittent availability of login nodes

Dear Users, we are experiencing some issues on Galileo login nodes, resulting in an intermittent inability in the connection and freezing of the open sessions. We will inform you as […]

Marconi-KNL: disabilitation of routing queues knl and knltest for job submissions

Dear Users, following yesterday’s news on the activation of the Account check for KNL jobs, that modification requests the disabilitation of the routing queue “knl” and “knltest” (defined on the […]

PETSC version update to 3.7.5 on Marconi

Dear Users, we have updated PETSC library version to 3.7.5, you can find it as a module in profile/base. This version is compiled for Broadwell and KNL architectures. Keep in […]

Marconi A2 (knl) – Accounting update

Dear users, although at the moment we are not charging the KNL budget consumption yet, starting from tomorrow you will have to specify an account whenever you want to submit […]

Marconi A1 (broadwell) – new version of OpenFOAM is available

Dear users, we are glad to inform you that the last realese of the offical version of ESI’s OpenFOAM “openfoam+/v1612” is available to be used in Marconi A1 in phys […]

new on-line course about Supercomputing (delivered by PRACE)

Dear users, I would like to advertize you about a very interesting initiative of PRACE, the European Partnership per Advanced COmputing.   ———————————————————————–Free online course: Supercomputing———————————————————————– www.futurelearn.com/courses/supercomputing  Today’s supercomputers are […]

Marconi: change in jobs submission to the KNL (A2) partition

Dear Users, After the first month of testing/pre-production phase, we introduced a simplified and more robust way to manage the job submission to the KNL (A2) partition. Our first configuration […]