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Active | operational 2015 |
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Sponsors | Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy) |
Operators | The Members of the Consortium [1] |
Location | Cineca, Casalecchio di Reno, Italy |
Architecture | IBM NeXtScale Linux Infiniband Cluster Compute/login nodes 66, Intel Xeon E5 2670 v2 #2.5Ghz, 20 cores, 128 GB ram Visualization nodes 2, Intel Xeon E5 2670 v2 # 2.5Ghz, 20 cores, 128 GB Ram, 2 GPU Nvidia K40 Big Mem nodes 2, Intel Xeon E5 2650 v2 # 2.6 GHz, 16 cores, 512 GB Ram,1 GPU Nvidia K20 BigInsight nodes 4, Intel Xeon E5 2650 v2 # 2.6 GHz, 16 cores, 64 GB Ram, 32TB of local disk. |
Memory | 128 GB/Compute node 1080 (2 viz nodes with 512 GB) |
Storage | high throughput disks (based on GSS technology) for a total amount of about 4 PB, connected with a large capacity tape library for a total actual amount of 12 PByte (expandible to 16 PByte). |
Purpose | Big data |
Website | www |
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