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The Hardware Infrastructure

The hardware infrastructure in Cineca is sketched in the figure below: click on the figure or on the menu on the left to get details on the single machine or group of homogeneous machines.

Map of Cineca's hardware resources

  • HPC Systems are High Performance Computing platforms for technical and scientific computing
  • IT Systems are "Mission Critical" platforms used to host different type of services offered by Cineca.
  • Data Storage environment is a high-end Storage Area Network connected via fiber channel and serving all the computing systems
  • Graphics and Virtual Reality, is a collection of instruments and expertise available for every user
  • Multi videoconference-Access Grid (AGnode) is a point of access to an advanced system of multivideo conference, at disposal of all Cineca users.
HPC Special Systems HPC General Systems HPC Distributed Systems - DEISA Data Storage Equipments Graphics IT Systems Virtual Reality Lab Virtual Theatre Multi videoconference - Access Grid IBMHS21 9126 IBM PLX/2290 IBM LS21 5120 IBM BGP 4096 Front End Cluster High Availability Clusters Load Balanced Farms System for e-Vote applications IBM SP6 5376 DDN S2A8500 STK Sl8500 IBM DS4800 DDN S2A9550 IBM DCS9900 IBM DS8300