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Marconi is the Tier0 petaFLOPS supercomputer located in Cineca.

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.

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.

Articles about Marconi and its network
Il Sole 24 ore - in Italian

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