Newsletter

HPC user day (May 7 2012)

Dear users, waiting for the FERMI arrival we have organized an event to present the characteristics of this new HPC cluster.  “HPC User day – Aspettando FERMI” May 7, 2012 – […]

PRACE and DECI: new call open

Dear Users, here you can find informations about the new PRACE and DECI Calls. HPC-User Support CINECA   ================================================== PRACE RI Call Alert ==================================================     Call for proposals for […]

PLX – Budgeting rules

Dear users,   as regards PLX budgeting rules please note that:   1-the billing is based on elapsed time and the effective number of cores reserved (not used!) by the batch […]

Easter Holiday closing

Dear users,   We inform you that the help desk will be closed from Thursday, April 5 to Tuesday, April 10 for the Easter Holiday. Normal hours of operation will […]

A new document available: Installation plan for FERMI

Dear Users, A first installation plan for FERMI is available in the UserDocumentation section of our hpc.cineca.it site. The document try to answer to the most common requests of our […]

Cleanup procedure on the scratch disks of SP6

Dear HPC Users, I would like to remind you that, starting from tonight, the cleanup procedure of the scratch disks on SP6 will cancel files older than 15 days, instead of […]

SP6 and BGP shutdown date

 Dear HPC Users, we inform you that the shutdown of SP6 and BGP will occur at a date between 01/May and 15/May/2012. Please do not consider the machine available from […]

change of $CINECA_SCRATCH cleanup procedure on SP6

 Dear HPC Users, because of the arrival of the new system BlueGene/Q, FERMI, we inform you of a change that will shortly occur regarding the $CINECA_SCRATCH cleanup procedure on SP6. To […]

WARNING – PLX SCRATCH ALMOST FULL

Dear Users, we are sorry to inform you that PLX scratch space is almost full. We invite you to delete the old-unused data since the high occupancy of SCRATCH could […]

New FERMI system and dismission of SP6 and BGP

Dear Users,   we are glad to inform you that the installation of our new BG/Q system, FERMI, will start shortly and that we are already working on the implementation […]