GALILEO: a new Cineca Supercomputing cluster

A new computing system, named GALILEO, is now available at Cineca. The new Italian Tier-1 system for industrial and public research replaces the now obsolete but deserving PLX system. It is devoted to scientific computing on the basis of national and European proposals.

GALILEO, now in pre-production phase, will be in full production by FEBRUARY the 2nd and, from that moment, the user could benefit of an architecture 2-4 times faster than PLX.

GALILEO is a IBM NeXtScale cluster accelerated with Intel Phis processors; It is equipped with 516 compute nodes (8256 cores) each with 2 x Intel Xeon 2630 v3 @ 2.5 GHz, 8 cores each (16 core/node), with 128GB/node RAM DDR3 1866MHz. 384 nodes also host 2 Intel Phi 7120p cards. Total storage will be 2.5 PB.

For more detailed spec view the Galileo page.