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13 January 2014
10th Advanced School on Parallel Computing: last days to submit
Last days to submit to the 10th Advanced School on Parallel Computing that will be held in Bologna on 10-14 February 2014.
The course is free of charge and some grant are available for participants.
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13 January 2014
RDA 3rd Plenary meeting: 26-28 March 2014 in Dublin
Research Data Alliance Third Plenary Meeting - The Data Sharing Community: Playing YOUR part!
The RDA is a global, grass-roots organisation dedicated to developing the tools, infrastructure, services, standards and practices that the research community needs to share and exchange its data treasures.
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19 December 2013
ESA’s Gaia mission to survey a billion stars launched today
On December 19th at 10:12 (Italian time) the mission GAIA of the European Space Agency takes off, with the launch of the satellite from the European base in Kourou (French Guiana) with the Soyuz - Fregat. Cineca collaborates in mission GAIA providing HPC resources and optimization of codes.
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17 December 2013
8 Public-Private Partnerships signed in Brussels between EC and industry
Among the 8 cPPP under Horizon2020 signed today, also the ETP4HPC cPPP, represented for the signature by Philippe Vannier (for ETP Chair, Bull CEO) and Sanzio Bassini (Cineca) and by Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission and digital agenda commissioner, and Herbert von Bose, Director of the Industrial Technologies directorate for the European Commission.
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14 December 2013
PRACE Partners launch Pre-Commercial Procurement
PRACE Partners launch Pre-Commercial Procurement: "Whole-System Design for Energy Efficient HPC".
The maximum budget allocated for the whole of the PCP is € 9,000,000.00 (nine million Euro), excluding VAT.
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13 December 2013
Cineca HPC training events 2014
The 2014 training calendar is on-line.
All the training events are free of charge.
Next course is
"Introduction to Fortran90" on 20-23 January 2014 in Rome.
Registration is now open.
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09 December 2013
PRACE & XSEDE Call for Requests for Support
On 9 December 2013, PRACE and XSEDE jointly opened an Invitation to submit Requests for Support for interoperable services between PRACE and XSEDE resources by collaborating teams.
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04 December 2013
RDA 3rd Plenary meeting: 26-28 March 2014 in Dublin
The Research Data Alliance invites you to join the 3rd RDA Plenary Meeting, at Croke Park Conference Centre, 26 - 28 March 2014, Dublin, Ireland.
The meeting focuses on the theme ‘The Data Sharing Community: Playing YOUR Part’ and is about exploiting RDA’s work to date to its full potential.
Topics range from agriculture to particle physics, and from humanities to bioinformatics.
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03 December 2013
PRACE Scientific and Industrial Conference 2014 - Call for Contributions
In 2014, 20 - 22 May, PRACE organises in Barcelona its first Scientific and Industrial Conference – the first edition of the PRACE days - under the motto HPC for Innovation – when Science meets Industry. 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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29 November 2013
"Project Management e Ricerca: sinergia o competizione?" - 6/12/2013 Trento
Fondazione Bruno Kessler organizes an open event on "Project Management e Ricerca: sinergia o competizione?" in Povo, Trento
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21 November 2013
Cineca is present at the HBP Summit 2013
At the Human Brain Project Summit October 7 - 11, 2013, scientists got together to kick off 12 subprojects, or areas of study. The Human Brain Project will bring together 80 universities and thousands of scientists in an unprecedented collaborative effort.
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20 November 2013
FERMI reconfirmed among the highest positions in the TOP500
The Italian supercomputer FERMI, IBM Blue Gene/Q, is now number 15 in the November 2013 Top500 list.
Fermi, available to the Italian and European scientific community by ISCRA and PRACE, was installed at Cineca in June 2012.
Two Cineca systems, FERMI and PLX, are ranked in the list.
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