Projects
Cineca is committed to many national, international and European Union projects for supporting research and the development of the most advanced technologies.
With an excellent infrastructure and highly qualified staff, Cineca allows the world of research to successfully address scientific challenges.
Aksum, Ethiopia
Dynamic behaviors, simulations of the change of lighting, navigation in dynamic virtual environments, excavation GIS data.
Software: Vega Multigen Paradigm
Archaeological Zaragoza
The 3D overview of the province of Zaragoza has been linked to a comprehensive database about the archaeological landscape and the analysis of the documentation of the sites.
Ascoli Satriano, Foggia
Image processing and photo interpretation of aerial photographs related to archaeological sites
Software: image processing libraries on supercomputer
BIG BANG (documentary)
An 8 minute 3D documentary about the origins and the evolution of the universe created for the Planetarium in Turin.
Bologna and its canals
Photorealistic rendering and virtual navigation of a canal and its lock, an "ideal" farm and a water mill realized for the exhibition "Bologna e l'invenzione delle acque".
Casa del Centenario
Virtual reconstruction of the “Casa del Centenario”, realized for the project "Pompei - Insula del Centenario" and "MUSE - Parnaso".
Certosa Virtual Museum
The project aims to restore, preserve and promote the extraordinary open-air museum created by the Bolognese over two centuries in the Carthusian monastery, founded in the first half of the fourteenth century and abolished by Napoleon. This is one of the oldest cemeteries in Europe, a monument of worldwide importance, a review of the history of the city, a unique place for sculpture and architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Certosa Virtual Museum: Monte Sole
During the Second World War, the province of Bologna witnessed a particularly bloody event: the massacre of Marzabotto. To preserve the memory of such a historic event an application about the slaughtering area was made and was connected to a database.
Certosa Virtual Museum: Monumental ossuary of the Great War
The 3D reconstruction of the monument, and the cloister that houses it, provides the setting and reference to the world-historical event, passing through the commemoration of people who took part in the war.
Certosa Virtual Museum: Monumental ossuary to the partisans
To honour the victims of the liberation struggle (1943-1945), the monumental ossuary dedicated to the fallen partisans and the Memorial to the partisans in Piazza Nettuno have been reconstructed to become a visual element of access to a rich multimedia relational database designed and developed by CINECA along with the 3D models.
Certosa Virtual Museum: the reconstruction of the landscape of the Etruscan necropolis
The digital terrain model with georeferencing of Etruscan tombs discovered during the second half of the Nineteenth century by Antonio Zannoni.
Certosa Virtual Museum: the Third Cloister
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.
Daily Life in the Middle Ages: Parma in the Cathedral Age
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.
DEISA2
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.
Diana project
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.
EMI
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.
Entella, Sicily
Realtime DTM navigation, integration with GIS data and geomagnetic investigations.
Software: Grass
EU Project V-MusT.net
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.
EUDAT
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.
Europlanet
Europlanet RI, the Europlanet Research Infrastructure, is the four-year follow-on project to EuroPlaNet, a four-year Coordination Action supported by the European Union under the Sixth Framework Programme. The Europlanet RI was launched in January 2009. It is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3), ie. a combination of Networking Activities, Transnational Access Activities and Joint Research Activities.
EXPLORIS
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,
Genus Bononiae - museums in the city: the 3D movie
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.
Genus Bononiae - museums in the city: the immersion room
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.
HPC-World
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
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
