Francesco Profumo, Minister of University and Research, at Cineca for the inauguration of FERMI

On October 3rd at 11.30 Francesco Profumo, Minister of University and Research, will be at Cineca for the official inauguration of the FERMI supercomputer, ranked at the 7th position in the June12 Top500.

FERMI is one of the PRACE Tier-0 systems and is available to Italian and European researchers since summer 2012.

In the October ceremony Minister Profumo will officially inaugurate the system. That will also be the occasion for discussing the perspectives of the national and European computational research world with some of the most relevant players of the HPC and scientific panorama.

The agenda of the event includes contributes, besides the Minister one, from Catherine Riviere, president of PRACE Council, Thomas Lippert, coordinator of PRACE IP projects, Claudio Zannoni, president of the Cineca Scientific Committee for PRACE, Francesco Pavone, director of the European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy and Kostas Glinos, director of DG Connect of the European Commission.

11:30   Welcome by Cineca President, Emilio Ferrari

11.45   Presentation of the PRACE AISBL, by the PRACE Council President, Ms Catherine Riviere

12:00 Presentation of the PRACE Scientific Case for Leading Edge High Performance Computing, PRACE 3IP Coordinator, Prof Thomas Lippert

12:15   Presentation of the Human Brain Project,  Prof Francesco Pavone, LENS (European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy)

12:30    Technologic transfer to industries Dr Luca Bertelli, ENI

12:45    Presentation by the Chairman of the Cineca Scientific Committee for PRACE, Prof Claudio Zannoni

13:00    Presentation by Dr Kostas Glinos, Director of DG Connect, European Commission

13:15    Speech of the Italian Ministry of University, Prof Francesco Profumo

13.30   Inauguration of the Supercomputing system, visit of the data center, visit at the virtual theatre