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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,
Active	operational 2016
Sponsors	Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy)
Operators	The Members of the Consortium
Location	Cineca, Casalecchio di Reno, Italy
Architecture	Intel Knights Landing 1x Intel Xeon Phi7250 @1.4GHz; 68 cores each ; Total cores: 244800; Total nodes: 3600;
Operating system	operating system
Memory	96 GB/node, 6.528 GB/core; TiB
Storage	Scratch (local): tbd (10PB in total); Work (local): tbd (10PB in total)
Speed	11 Pflop/s. PFLOPS
Ranking	TOP500
Purpose	Material science, Weather, Climatology, Seismology, Biology, Computational chemistry, Computer science
Legacy	Ranked 14 on TOP500 as of June 2017
Website	hpc.cineca.it/hardware/marconi

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

History

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

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.

References

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

Articles about Marconi and its network

Il Sole 24 ore - in Italian

Datacenter Knowledge

Category:Power Architecture Category:Supercomputers Category:IBM supercomputers

[1] "Consortium of universities". Retrieved 9 March 2016.

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[TOP500june2015-3] "Fermi". TOP500. Retrieved 9 March 2016.

[TOP500FermiCineca-4] "FERMI". TOP500. Retrieved 9 March 2016.

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History

Specifications

See also

References

Articles about Marconi and its network