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26/07/2012
In this new important project (funded by the EC – DG Connect, former INFSO), which prime objective is to establish an EU-US coordination platform to improve the interoperability of today’s and tomorrow’s scientific data infrastructures on both continents, CINECA is responsible for the collaboration of European and US partners in the field of the solid Earth Science.
19/07/2012
INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) and CINECA have signed a framework collaboration agreement on high performance scientific computing for high-energy and nuclear physics.
18/07/2012
PRACE (the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, providing a persistent world-class HPC service for scientists and researchers from academia and industry) and XSEDE launch a call for Expressions of Interest for Joint Access by International Teams
05/07/2012
BlueGene/Q is confirmed as the the most "green" HPC architecture. The June 2012 Green500, the list of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world, sees BlueGene systems in the first 20 positions.
26/06/2012
Top500 published on June 18: Italy makes its debut in the top 10 with the BlueGene/Q system installed at CINECA. The system is at No. 7 on the list with 1.72 Pflop/s performance.
20/06/2012
Recognizing the importance of High Performance Computing for the development of Europe, major suppliers of HPC technologies have created an ETP for HPC and released the ETP’s Vision document to improve Europe’s position in the domain of HPC technologies.
The ETP4HPC expects to be recognised as the ETP referenced by EC and complements the research capacities created through PRACE.
19/06/2012
PRACE proudly announces the 4 European systems ranked in the top 10 of the Top500 list: SuperMUC at #4, FERMI at #7, JUQUEEN at #8 and CURIE thin nodes at #9.
05/06/2012
With the installation of FERMI, the new BG/Q supercomputing system, CINECA by mandate of Italian Ministry of Education University and Research, becomes PRACE Tier-0 hosting site as from the PRACE roadmap. The CINECA Scientific Committee for PRACE, up to now an informal body, became for the decision of the CINECA Board of Directors an institutional body.
25/05/2012
The installation plan of our new system FERMI, the IMB BG/Q, is now available. We are glad to provide you with precise dates about the next steps.