FERMI

FERMI located at Cineca in Italy. How to get access to FERMIFERMI went out of production on 18 July 2016. It was replaced by the new HPC cluster Marconi that went into production on 1 July.  All existing projects on FERMI have been moved to Marconi.

Architecture	IBM Blue Gene/Q system
Peak performance	2.1 PFlops
System configuration	10 racks with 10,240 nodes and 163,840 cores Rack: 2 midplanes à 16 nodeboards Nodeboard: 32 compute nodes Node: 16 cores
Processors	IBM PowerPC® A2, 1.6 GHz, 16 cores per node
Memory	16 GB SDRAM-DDR3 per node
Main memory	2.8 PB
Networks	Network interface with 11 links, a 5D Torus
I/O	2 racks: 16 I/O nodes per rack, implying a minimum job allocation of 64 nodes (1024 cores) 8 racks:  8 I/O nodes per rack, implying a minimum job allocation of 128 nodes (2048 cores)
Operating system	Compute nodes: CNK, lightweight proprietary kernel Login nodes: RedHat Linux v6.2
Job scheduler	LoadLeveler
More information	http://www.hpc.cineca.it/hardware/fermi http://www.hpc.cineca.it/content/fermi-reference-guide
Contact	Giovanni Erbacci (g.erbacci@cineca.it)