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30 March 2016
LISA workshop 2016: HPC & Bionformatics and Life Science
Save the Date: On April 6th at 14:00 in Milan, at Lombardy Region buildings, will take place a presentation of different services for the Lombardy research. Special track for Bioinformatics and Life Science.
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30 March 2016
LISA: Three Research Scholarships at Cineca SCAI
CINECA announces a public selection procedure for the awarding of three research scholarships lasting 12 months each.
Submission Deadline: 29th April 2016.
(In Italian)
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29 March 2016
Human Brain Project HBP: Public Platform Release
On 30 March 2016, the Human Brain Project is releasing the first components, services and tools of its 6 ICT Platforms to the scientific community (Neuroinformatics, Brain Simulation, High Performance Analytics and Computing, Medical Informatics, Neuromorphic Computing, Neurorobotics).
The event will be web-streamed live at 09:30 and 14:00
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22 March 2016
The ANTAREX project in HPC wins H2020 grant
The ANTAREX research project, coordinated by Cristina Silvano from Politecnico di Milano, wins a 3 million euro grant in the H2020 Future and Emerging Technologies programme on High Performance Computing. The project involves leading academic and industrial partners as well as CINECA.
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07 March 2016
PRACE 13th Call for Project Access: now open
The 13th Call for Proposal for Project Access will be open from today until 1 April 2016, 17:00 CET.
Proposals can be based on a 12-months schedule, or, for Multi-year Projects, on a 24- or 36-months schedule.
The 13th Call will offer resources on Marconi (new CINECA HPC system) and MareNostrum (BSC).
Allocation start date of awarded proposals: 1 September 2016
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24 February 2016
INFN and CINECA together to study gravitational waves
A series of partnership agreement between INFN and CINECA are in place to enhance the research in computational Physics in Italy. One of this has completed a series of simulations of the merger of Neutron Stars. The detection of the gravitational waves emitted will open new frontiers in the understanding of the physics of nuclear matter in the extreme conditions that are present in Neutron stars.
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22 February 2016
Webinar on Fortissimo 2 Open Call: 2 March
Fortissimo Open Call informative session:
On 2 March You can get more details and hints on how to write a proposal.
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18 February 2016
ASHEE-1.0: a compressible, equilibrium–Eulerian model for volcanic ash plumes
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First call for new Fortissimo 2 application experiments
This call for proposals targets the augmentation of the application experiments currently being carried out within Fortissimo 2 and Fortissimo focusing on modelling and simulation of coupled phenomena and high-performance data analytics and in all cases targeting benefits for engineering and manufacturing SMEs and mid-caps.
Submission Deadline: 18th May, 2016
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16 February 2016
PRACE days 2016 - Registrations open
From May 10-12 2016, PRACE will 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.
Registration is open until 29 April
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15 February 2016
Cineca Services statistics
We regularly published updated statistics about Cineca Hardware (Clusters and Storage) Utilization, Cineca Computing Users and Publications supported by Cineca and by PRACE
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