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23 September 2019
27 September: Cineca at European Researchers' Night
The EU Researchers' Night invites you to meet the heroes of science; that is to say, the researchers from different disciplines whose fascinating work can change our lives.
With family, friends, your school or on your own, you will become a scientist for a day, participate in science activities and most of all have fun!
Italy
Cineca takes part at the events in Rome and Bologna.
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23 September 2019
Leonardo Exascale: new resource for research and society
CINECA is a hosting entity of "Leonardo", a precursor of exascale supercomputer procured by the EuroHPC.
As part of the European night of researchers, Cineca will organize a dissemination event on "Leonardo" and 50 years of supercomputing in Italy on Thursday 26th September 18:00 at Bologna (in Italian)
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20 September 2019
20th PRACE Call for Project Access: Now Open
The 20th Call for Proposal for PRACE Project Access is now open until 29/10/2019 (10:00 CET). It is now possible to submit a proposal for PRACE under the defined guidelines, and apply for one of the supercomputers of the affiliated european HPC centers, including our future GPU Cluster. Proposals can be based on a 12-months or a 24/36-months schedule, for Multi-year Projects.
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09 September 2019
Cineca is joint research unit of ELIXIR-IT
ELIXIR is an European Research Infrastructure that brings together life sciences resources from across Europe. These resources include databases, software tools, best practices, training materials, cloud storage and supercomputers. ELIXIR-IT is the Italian Node of ELIXIR. Cineca is a technological partner of ELIXIR-IT
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06 September 2019
DARE project: for a urban regeneration tailored to citizenship
DARE (Digital environment for collaborative alliances to regenerate urban ecosystems in middle-sized cities) project won the 4th edition of the European Initiative UIA.
The main project objectives will be the digital transition and urban regeneration of the Darsena area in Ravenna, actively involving citizens for promoting and cocreating digital culture and to update local Public Administration.
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05 September 2019
IoTwins project: digital twins for industrial plants
New EC project: a unique and flexible platform for the creation of digital twins for industrial plants, a 20 million Euro European-funded project in which CINECA participates by providing its know-how in the field of big data analysis and in the definition of complex workflows on cloud and HPC systems.
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02 September 2019
Cineca HPC department: Job positions open
Up to six new job positions (12 months) have opened for working at HPC Department.
The candidates wil be selected for activities of high level support and application development concernig HPC (High Performance Computing) and HPDA (High Performance Data Analytics). Place of employment is Casalecchio di Reno BO. Submission Deadline: 25th September 2019
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19 July 2019
HPC-Europa3: ninth call for visitors open!
HPC-Europa is an EC-funded programme, coordinated by Cineca, which allows researchers to carry out short "transnational access" visits.
The ninth call for visitors is now open. Deadline: 19th September 2019 (23:59 CET).
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05 July 2019
EOSC-Pillar: mixing national recipes to build the European Open Science Cloud
Leveraging national initiatives of the EU Member States and thematic initiatives developed by research communities to help build an Open Science and FAIR data-based European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
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04 July 2019
EPI tutorial in Barcelona
European Processor Initiative (EPI) tutorial “First steps towards a made-in-Europe high-performance microprocessor” will be held on July 17th in Barcelona. Distinguished experts from the Initiative will give lectures during a three-hour meeting on HPC processor landscape and EPI’s plans. The tutorial is co-located with the ACM 2019 Summer school on HPC architectures for AI and applications
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17 June 2019
MARCONI ranked at number 21 in the June 2019 Top500 list
The Italian supercomputer MARCONI, available to the Italian and European scientific community by ISCRA and PRACE, is now number 21 with ~10,5 PFlops in the June 2019 Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world.
Two Cineca systems are ranked in the list.
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14 June 2019
In Italy one of the pre-exascale class computers
Italy will host one of the pre-exascale class computers funded by the European Commission in the context of EuroHPC, a joint collaboration between European countries and the European Union about developing and supporting exascale supercomputing by 2022/2023.
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