Marconi100, CINECA team lead presented the mission as a leading supercomputing research center with a new Tier0 supercomputer, the highest-performing classification for European systems. Marconi100 will support European researchers, through the PRACE initiative, and Italian researchers through the Italian Supercomputing Resource Allocation initiative (ISCRA), equipping them with additional computing resources to face the socioeconomic challenges of our time such as climate change, renewable energy, sustainable economics, and precision medicine.

1. CINECA HPC
INFRASTRUCTURE
Open Power Workshop
July 9th 2020, CINECA (Italy)

2. CINECA AT GLANCE
Services both for Universities and Ministry
• Solutions & Services for the University Administration
• Information system for the Ministry for the management, assessment, evaluation,
funding of the research
Scientific Research
• Promote the use of the most advanced High Performance Computing systems to
support public and private scientific and technological research
Innovation and technology transfer
• Numerical experiment, virtual prototyping
• Big data
• Scientific visualizations, computer graphics

3. USAGE OF HPC RESOURCES &
TOP500 POSITIONS
FRANCE
13%
GERMANY
32%ITALY
33%
SPAIN
14%
SWITZERLA
ND
8%
Resources allocated by PRACE (core
hours)

4. CINECA INFRASTRUCTURE

5. MARCONI100
• IBM POWER SYSTEM AC922
• 980 nodes
• Each equipped with:
• 2 * IBM POWER9 16C 3GHz
• 256 GB RAM
• 4* Nvidia V100
• For a total:
• 347’776 cores
• 252’928 GB
• 3920 GPUs
• Dual-rail Mellanox EDR Infiniband
• Linpack Performance (Rmax): 21’640 TFlop/s
• Theoretical Peak (Rpeak): 29’354 TFlop/s

6. HOW TO HAVE AN ACCESS
• PRACE:
• European level
• Both for Large projects (100K-1M Node hours) and development (preparatory access)
• PIs from European Institution
• https://prace-ri.eu/
• ISCRA:
• National Level
• Only for Italian-based PIs
• Mid and small size projects (1K-50K Node hours)
• http://www.hpc.cineca.it/services/iscra
• Agreement

7. THANK YOU