Galileo100

The new infrastructure GALILEO100, co-funded by the European ICEI (Interactive Computing e-Infrastructure) project and engineered by DELL is available to the Italian public and industrial researchers until September 2021. It is the national Tier-1 system for scientific research.

HPC Architecture Description

Compute Nodes:

• 528 computing nodes each 2 x CPU Intel CascadeLake 8260,  with 24 cores each, 2.4 GHz, 384GB RAM, subdivided in:
  • 348 standard nodes ("thin nodes") 480 GB SSD
  • 180 data processing nodes ("fat nodes") 2TB SSD, 3TB Intel Optane
  • 36 GPU nodes with 2x NVIDIA GPU V100 with 100Gbs Infiniband interconnection and 2TB SSD.
  • 77 computing server OpenStack for cloud computing, 2x CPU 8260 Intel CascadeLake, 24 cores, 2.4 GHz, 768 GB RAM, with 100Gbs Ethernet interconnection.
  • 20 PB of active storage accessible from both cloud and HPC nodes.
  • 5 PB of fast storage for HPC system.
  • 1 PB Ceph storage for Cloud (full NVMe/SSD)

Login and Service nodes:

• 10  Login nodes are available. 5  service nodes for I/O and cluster management.
• All the nodes are interconnected through an Infiniband network, with OPA v10.6, capable of a maximum bandwidth of 100Gbit/s between each pair of nodes.

Access

There are three main ways to access CINECA HPC Systems.

• Access via Secure Shell (SSH)
• Access via Desktop Based Tool (RCM)
• Access to download or upload data (SCP, RSYNC, GridFTP)

Please note that two-factor authentication is required. SSH certificate has to be requested using a small step client.

A web page will be automatically opened on the browser and you will be asked to authenticate to our Identity Provider by inserting an OTP. 

More information

Find more information on the CINECA Technical Portal. 

Find more information on the CINECA homepage. 

Name of hosting organisation and Location

CINECA, via Magnanelli 6/3, 40033 Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, Italy

CINECA offices are also located in Milan, Rome, Naples and Chieti.