Pico located at Cineca in Italy. How to get access to Pico |
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Architecture | Linux Infiniband Cluster |
System configuration | 74 nodes with in total 1080 cores
51 compute nodes with 20 cores each and 128 GB memory. Processor: Intel Xeon (Ten-Core) E5-2670v2 2.50 GHz 2 big memory Nodes: two nodes, big1 and big2, equipped with 32 cores and 0.5 TB/ 40 cores -and1 TB of RAM for specific activities, which require a remarkable quantity of memory. Both are HP DL980 servers. Can be accessed upon request.
Viz nodes: 2 x (20 core, 128 GB memory, 2 x GPU NVIDIA K40) + 2 x (16 core, 512 GB memory, 1 x GPU NVIDIA K20); remote visualization environment is defined on this partition, taking advantage from the large memory and the GPU acceleration. BigInsights nodes: 4 x 16 core nodes, 64 GB memory/node, 32 TB local disk space/node + 1 x 20 core node, 128 GB memory); IBM solution for Hadoop applications is available; InfoSphere BigInsights is available for special projects to be agreed upon with our staff. Other nodes: 13 x 20 core nodes, 128 GB memory; used for internal activities in the domain of Cloud computing, large Scientific Databases, hadoop for science. Special projects can be activated on this partition, selected by special calls. |
Operating system | Linux |
Job scheduler | PBS |
Login nodes | 2 x 20 core nodes, 128 GB memory. Both nodes are reachable through the following URL: login.pico.cineca.it |
More information | http://www.hpc.cineca.it/content/pico-user-guide |
Contact | Giuseppe Fiameni (g.fiameni@cineca.it) |