News
06 March 2015
Big success of the Italian scientific community in PRACE
The 10th PRACE Regular Call for Proposals yielded 127 eligible proposals of which 48 were awarded for a total of close to 1.0 thousand million core hours. The 48 awarded projects are led by P. I. from 13 different European countries, 1 from Australia and 2 from the USA.
11 awarded projects have PI from Italy (23% of projects) for a total of 286 million core hours (27% of hours).
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02 March 2015
International Summer School '15: Toronto 21-26 June
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the sixth International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences, to be held June 21-26, 2015, in Toronto, Canada.
Deadline for applications: March 11, 2015
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13 February 2015
HBP: Radio2RAI interviews Giovanni Erbacci
On January 24th Radio2 RAI (Ovunque 6) interviewed Giovanni Erbacci (Cineca contact point). He discussed the role of Cineca in "Human Brain Project", one of the most ambitious and innovative scientific projects of the European Community.
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10 February 2015
EUDAT teams up with PRACE to support science
PRACE and EUDAT both understand that the digital era offers new challenges and opportunities, requiring high-end HPC and Data Services for European researchers. The 11th PRACE Call for Proposals for Project Access includes a pilot with EUDAT offering the possibility to couple EUDAT storage capacity to PRACE HPC resources. DEADLINE: 18 March 2015
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02 February 2015
Want to spend the summer working at a European HPC Center?
PRACE will organize in 2015 again summer placements at CINECA or other HPC centres across Europe to late stage undergraduates and early stage postgraduate students.
Travel, accommodation and a stipend will be provided to all successful applicants.
EXTENDED Applications deadline: 15 March 2015.
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27 January 2015
GALILEO: a new Cineca Supercomputing cluster
A new computing system, named GALILEO, is now available at Cineca. The new Italian Tier-1 system for industrial and public research replaces the now obsolete but deserving PLX system. It is devoted to scientific computing on the basis of national and European proposals.
GALILEO is a IBM NeXtScale cluster accelerated with Intel Phis processors.
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26 January 2015
Annual Report 2014 published
The actual Cineca HPC report has been published and is available for download.
This second edition of the Cineca HPC Annual Report continues our commitment to offer data and information about our effort and impact in High Performance Computing on the scientific community and to share with all our stakeholders our vision and perspectives of development.
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17 December 2014
Cineca HPC training events 2015
The 2015 training calendar is on-line.
All the training events are free of charge.
Next courses is
"High Performance Molecular Dynamics" on 4-6 February in Rome.
Subscriptions are opened about 3 months before the event starting date.
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15 December 2014
Workshop on Software Engineering for HPC: Call for Papers
The 2015 International Workshop on Software Engineering for High Performance Computing in Science (SE4HPCS15) will be held Tuesday May 19, 2015 in Florence, in conjunction with ICSE 2015. Submission deadline: January 23, 2015
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25 November 2014
Call for Applications for 2nd HBP Education Workshop - Future Medicine
HBP Students can now apply for the second HBP Education Workshop - Future Medicine, to be held 15-18 March 2015 at the Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV) in Lausanne, Switzerland. The application deadline is 1 February, 2015.
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