News
22 June 2016
ISCRA Call: Open until 15 July
Call for ISCRA class B projects are open.
Class B projects can request from 200 Thousand and 2 Million total CPU hours on the MARCONI machine.
Maximum duration: 12 months.
Deadline: July the 15th 2016
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21 June 2016
Three Cineca supercomputers ranked in the TOP500 list
Three Cineca systems Fermi, Marconi and Galileo are ranked in the June 2016 Top500 list.
In this list are ranked 5 Italian systems, 3 by Cineca and 2 by ENI, but these system are managed by Cineca too.
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20 June 2016
MARCONI: first deployment with a new framework Lenovo
Lenovo at ISC unveiled a new technical framework for integrating its advanced server and storage portfolio with technologies from industry-leading partners to create powerful High-Performance Computing (HPC) solutions. Lenovo showcased the first deployment using this framework: the “MARCONI” Supercomputer for Cineca.
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13 June 2016
LISA Call: open until 30 June
Researchers of the Universities and Research Centers based in Lombardy are invited to submit scientific projects in order to receive High Performance Resources and specialized support.
The proposals are eligible from any scientific discipline.
Deadline: 30th June 2016
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09 June 2016
Equilibrium between 5-and 6-Fold Coordination in the First Hydration Shell of Cu(II)
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ISTAT and CINECA together to exploit BIG DATA
Cineca and the National Institute of Statistics ISTAT signed an agreement to perform joint research activities towards the identification and experimentation of methods and techniques for Big Data exploitation.The collaboration aims to study, develop and test new methodologies to collect and analyze huge volumes of data, taking advantage of the Cineca High Performance Data Analytics infrastructure
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02 May 2016
PRACE Autumn School opens for Applications
The PRACE Autumn School 2016 "Modern HPC Development for Scientists and Engineers" will take place on September 27-30 2016, at the Castle of Hagenberg/Linz, in Austria.
Registration Deadline: July 1, 2016.
Free of charge (not including travel and accommodation).
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20 April 2016
LISA Call: open until 2 May!
Researchers of the Universities and Research Centers based in Lombardy are invited to submit scientific projects in order to receive High Performance Resources and specialized support.
The proposals are eligible from any scientific discipline.
Deadline: 2nd May 2016
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19 April 2016
PRACE days 2016 - Registration until 29 April!
From May 10-12 2016, PRACE organise the third edition of its Scientific and Industrial Conference – PRACEdays16 – under the motto HPC for Innovation: when Science meets Industry in Prague, Czech Republic.
The conference will bring together experts from academia and industry who will present their advancements in HPC-supported science and engineering.
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14 April 2016
Cineca: Five fixed-term contract at SCAI department
CINECA announces a selection procedure for the coverage of five fixed-term contract lasting 36 months each. Submission Deadline: 29th April 2016.
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13 April 2016
MARCONI: the new Cineca supercomputer
Marconi is the new Italian class Tier-0 supercomputer, available for the Italian and European research community.
It has been co-designed by Cineca on the Lenovo NeXtScale architecture. It is equipped with the new Intel Xeon processors and it will reach a performance of about 20 PFlop/s, while maintaining a low energy consumption. Delivery is expected for mid June.
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12 April 2016
IPCEI project: Luxembourg, France, Italy and Spain signed the agreement
IPCEI (Important Project of Common European Interest) on HPC and Big Data Enabled Applications (IPCEI-HPC-BDA) intends to develop a number of real-time integrative HPC applications towards a “Smart Nation”.
CINECA, with INFN, GARR and CNR, is a core partner of the IPCEI project.
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