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Side of supercomputer MARCONI is the new Tier-0 system, co-designed by CINECA and based on the Lenovo NeXtScale platform,
Activeoperational 2016
SponsorsMinistry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy)
OperatorsThe Members of the Consortium [1]
LocationCineca, Casalecchio di Reno, Italy
ArchitectureIntel Knights Landing 1x Intel Xeon Phi7250 @1.4GHz
68 cores each
Total cores: 244800
Total nodes: 3600
Operating systemoperating system[2]
Memory96 GB/node, 6.528 GB/core; TiB
StorageScratch (local): tbd (10PB in total)
Work (local): tbd (10PB in total)
Speed11 Pflop/s. PFLOPS
RankingTOP500
PurposeMaterial science, Weather, Climatology, Seismology, Biology, Computational chemistry, Computer science
LegacyRanked 14 on TOP500 as of June 2017
Websitehpc.cineca.it/hardware/marconi

Marconi is the Tier0 petaFLOPS supercomputer located in Cineca.[3]

History

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Top of supercomputer MARCONI the new Tier-0 system, co-designed by CINECA and based on the Lenovo NeXtScale platform,

MARCONI is the main HPC computer in CINECA. It was acquired in april 2016 and entered in full production in July 4th,the same year. Marconi is the Italian National Tier-0 system for scientific research and is also part of the European HPC infrastructure (PRACE). Its procurement was sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy).

In November 2016, Marconi reached the 12 position on the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world.[4]

Specifications

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Installation of supercomputer MARCONI the new Tier-0 system, co-designed by CINECA and based on the Lenovo NeXtScale platform.

The new system will gradually be completed in about 12 months, between April 2016 and July 2017, according to a plan based on a series of updates:

A1: a preliminary system going into production in July 2016, based on Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family (Broadwell) with a computational power of 2Pflop/s. A2: by the end of 2016 a new section will be added, equipped with the next-generation of the Intel Xeon Phi product family (Knights Landing), based on a many-core architecture, enabling an overall configuration of about 250 thousand cores with expected additional computational power of approximately 11Pflop/s. A3: finally, in July 2017, this system is planned to reach a total computational power of about 20Pflop/s utilizing future generation Intel Xeon processors (Sky Lakes). This supercomputer takes advantage of the new Intel® Omni-Path Architecture, which provides the high performance interconnectivity required to efficiently scale the system’s thousands of servers. A high-performance Lenovo GSS storage subsystem, that integrates the IBM Spectrum Scale™ (GPFS) file system, is connected to the Intel Omni-Path Fabric and provides data storage capacity.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Consortium of universities". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
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  3. ^ "Fermi". TOP500. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  4. ^ "FERMI". TOP500. Retrieved 9 March 2016.

Articles about Marconi and its network

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Il Sole 24 ore - in Italian

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