The digital terrain model with georeferencing of Etruscan tombs discovered during the second half of the Nineteenth century by Antonio Zannoni.
The Third Cloister of the Certosa in Bologna hosts an important gallery of neo-classical works of art painted on the tombs and monuments housed under its arches.
Part of the celebrations for the 900th anniversary of the dedication of the Parma Cathedral, the exhibition "Daily Life in the Middle Ages - Parma in the Cathedral Age" depicts the city as it was when the Cathedral was built.
The project DEEP proposes to develop a novel, Exascale-enabling supercomputing platform along with the optimisatioon of a set of grand-challenge codes simulating applications highly relevant for Europe's science, industry and society. The DEEP System will realise a Cluster Booster Architecture that will serve as proof-of-concept for a next-generation 100 PFlop/s production system.
DEISA is a consortium of leading national supercomputing centres that currently deploys and operates a persistent, production quality, distributed supercomputing environment with continental scope. The main objective of this FP7 funded research infrastructure is to deliver a turnkey operational solution for a future persistent European HPC ecosystem, as suggested by ESFRI. This ecosystem will integrate national Tier-1 centres and the new powerful Tier-0 centres.
One of the main questions posed to the forensic experts when, during a criminal episode, a firearm has been used, concerns its identification. The solution to this question is sought by examining the ballistic traces found in scaena criminis. In particular, through the study and analysis of the ballistic fingerprints, left by certain mechanical parts of the weapon on the surface of cartridge cases and bullets.
The Sapienza Digital Library (SDL) is a research project undertaken by Sapienza Università di Roma, the largest Europe’s campus, and the Italian supercomputer center Cineca.
The SDL project aims to build an infrastructure supporting preservation, management and dissemination of the past, present and future digital resources, that contain the overall intellectual production of the Sapienza University.
The European Middleware Initiative (EMI) is a close collaboration of the three major middleware providers, ARC, gLite and UNICORE, and other specialized software providers like dCache.
The project's mission is to deliver a consolidated set of middleware components for deployment in EGI (as part of the Unified Middleware Distribution - UMD), PRACE and other DCIs, extend the interoperability and integration with emerging computing models, strengthen the reliability and manageability of the services and establish a sustainable model to support, harmonise and evolve the middleware, ensuring it responds effectively to the requirements of the scientific communities relying on it.
Realtime DTM navigation, integration with GIS data and geomagnetic investigations.
Software: Grass
The goal of the EPIGEN project is to understand how epigenetic mechanisms regulate biological processes ,determine phenotypic variation and contribute to the onset and progression of diseases .The project is highly multidisciplinary and involves more than 40 Italian research teams ,working in close collaboration using a wide range of experimental models ,applying mainly genomewide approaches .The participants are all academic laboratories based in research institutions from all over Italy ,who share a commitment to perform culting edge epigenomics research
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The goal of the EPIGEN project is to understand how epigenetic mechanisms regulate biological processes ,determine phenotypic variation and contribute to the onset and progression of diseases .The project is highly multidisciplinary and involves more than 40 Italian research teams ,working in close collaboration using a wide range of experimental models ,applying mainly genomewide approaches .The participants are all academic laboratories based in research institutions from all over Italy ,who share a commitment to perform culting edge epigenomics research
Virtual Museums (VM) are a new model of communication that aims at creating a personalized, immersive, interactive way to enhance our understanding of the world around us.
Cineca is member of EUDAT an European project, co-funded within the 7th Framework Programme. That will deliver a Collaborative Data Infrastructure (CDI) with the capacity and capability for meeting future researchers’ needs in a sustainable way.
Navigation of the Bolognese landscape through the digital terrain model (DTM) textured with nineteenth-century historical maps and aerial photos (both historical and recent). Software used: OSG, Grass
The Mediterranean Open Access Network (MedOANet) project was promoted by Cineca with the goal of identifying strategies , frameworks and policies for the open access in 6 countries placed in the Mediterranen area .
Energy efficiency is already a primary concern for any computer design system and it is unanonimously recognized that future Exascale systems will be strongly constrained by their power consumption. This is why the Mont-Blanc project , which was launched on 01-10-2011 ,has set itself the following objective : to design a new type of computer architecture capable of setting future global High Perfomance Computer (HPC) standards that will deliver Exascale performance while using 15 to 30 times less energy.
With the accelerating materials development cycles, the development of simulation approaches for predictive, de-novo characterization and optimization of materials and device properties emerges as a grand challenge to European R&D. A unified multi-disciplinary approach towards the deployment of models, tools, algorithms and simulation and visualization techniques is required to transform isolated solutions for specific problems into comprehensive, industry-ready platforms, which are capable of predicting the properties of complex materials on the basis of their constitutive elements. While many techniques exist to address the specific questions, a lack of integration of the existing methods into readily available multi-scale modelling platforms has to date limited the impact of materials-modelling techniques in materials design. In this project we will develop an integrated e-infrastructure for multi-scale materials modelling, where expert groups unite with computational resource providers to deliver an integrated infrastructure.
Communicate historical content to a wide and varied audience is an increasingly felt task that need new ways to attract and involve people with compelling arguments. For involving the audience of non-professionals is important to develop appropriate solutions, mixing scientifically sound content with immediacy and ease of access, starting perhaps from familiar issues in order to avoid a strain on that part of the public less at ease with historical topics.
Computer applications of virtual reality are a valuable tool to provide new means of access to the history of a city. A virtual visitor can roam at will in the streets or stand on a tower or take off and fly over the present day city or its historical reconstruction, can walk under the porticoes or give e closer look at the battlements of the Asinelli tower. The presence of a "time machine", available through the computer, allows visitors to venture into the past and see how the same location changed in different historical periods.
The purpose of the project is to provide a sustainable high -quality infrastructure for Europe that can meet the most demanding needs of European HPC user communities through the provision of user access to the most powerful HPC systems available worlwide at any given time .PRACE-2IP will foster the coordination between national HPC resources (Tier-1 systems) to best meet the needs of the European HPC user community .
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EXPLORIS’s main ambition is to make a significant step forward in the assessment of explosive eruption risk in highly populated EU cities and islands. The workplan proposed aims at making significant progress in each of the fundamental components determining volcanic risk: the volcanological scenario assessment, the numerical simulation of the eruptive processes, the vulnerability assessment, the quantification of the impact of the event on the surrounding buildings,
The first 3D stereo HD movie created for a museum. The goal is to tell the story of Bologna with a cartoon, historically validated. Not just a movie but a 3D short film in which viewers can enjoy a journey through 2700 years of Bolognese history.
Halfway through the tour of Palazzo Pepoli, part of “Genus Bononiae - museums in the city”, an immersion room will show, besides the 3D movie of Apa, movies and stereoscopic real-time applications about the history of Bologna.
HPCW is a consortium of 6 key-players in High Performance Computing all around the world [5 Supercomputing Centers (CINECA, BSC, FZJ, SDSC and BlueFern) plus GENCI, the French national agency in charge of HPC coordination], with the aim of performing an analysis and an assessment of the models used worldwide by the HPC centers and initiatives to manage the requests for allocation of resources coming from researchers and their communities.
HPC-Europa2’s main objective is to maintain the persistency of high quality transnational access to the most advanced HPC infrastructures available in Europe for the European computational science community, as offered in the last two decades by the same consortium. The entire project is organized around its core activity which is the Transnational Access (TA) HPC service provision. Over the four year lifespan of the action, this TA will provide HPC service, specialist support, scientific
DTM texture mapping and localization of sites.
Software: ad hoc applications based on OpenGL graphic libraries
The reasons for the aforementioned transformation are manifold: legal aspects, regulations, business requirements, economic factors, etc. Technological trends such as SOA, Software as a Service, Virtualisation are influencing the way in which IT services are rendered. Model-based approaches and IT-Governance are prominent candidates to bridge evolving business contexts and IT, in order to adapt the provisioning of IT for business needs. This challenge can be met by capitalizing on semantic
2003 Po River Delta Park: Reconstruction of the landscape
Software: Visman (CINECA), ERMapper, Terravista (Terrex)
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe prepares the creation of a persistent pan-European HPC service, consisting of several tier-0 centres providing European researchers with access to capability computers and forming the top level of the European HPC ecosystem. PRACE is a project funded in part by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme.
