Tukulti65/sandbox3
Cineca University Consortium in Casalecchio di Reno (BO)
Activeoperational 2015
SponsorsMinistry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, University of Milano-Bicocca
OperatorsThe Members of the Consortium [1]
LocationCineca, Casalecchio di Reno, Italy
ArchitectureIBM NeXtScale
Infiniband with 4x QDR switches
2 8-cores Intel Haswell 2.40 GHz per node
16 cores/node,516 nodes, 8256 cores in total
2 Intel Phi 7120p per node on 384 nodes (768 in total); 2 NVIDIA K80 per node on 40 nodes (80 in total, 20 available for scientific research)
Power2,825.55 KW
Operating systemCentOS 7.0
Memory128 GB/node, 8 GB/core; 46,592 GB
Storage2.000 TB of local scratch
Speed1,103.1 PFLOPS
RankingTOP500: 130, 2015-11
Purposecomputational fluid dynamics, material and life science, and geophysics
Websitewww.hpc.cineca.it/content/galileo

Galileo is a 1.1 -petaFLOPS supercomputer located in Cineca.[2]

History edit

 
Wiring of Galileo supercomputer in Cineca


The development of Galileo was sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy), the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the University of Milano-Bicocca


In June 2015, Galileo reached the hundred and fifth position on the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world. [3]

In the Green500 list of top supercomputers.[4] Galileo reached the three hundred eighty-ninth position in their benchmark, the system tested at 242.17 MFLOPS/W (Performance per watt).


See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Consortium of universities". Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Nov 2015". TOP500. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  3. ^ "GALILEO". TOP500. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  4. ^ "The Green 500 List: November 2015". Graph 500. Retrieved 9 March 2016.

Articles about Galileo and its network edit

La Repubblica in Italian

Corriere Comunicazioni in Italian

ResearchItaly in Italian

Primeur Magazine

RaiNews in Italian

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