Cineca is a non-profit consortium, made up of 69 Italian universities, 27 national public research centres, the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR) and the Italian Ministry of Education (MI), and was established in 1969 in Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna.
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| Formation | July 1967 |
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| Type | governmental organisation |
| Purpose | supercomputing centre for scientific research |
| Headquarters | Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, Italy, EU |
| Location | |
| Fields | grid computing, bioinformatic, digital content |
Official language | English, Italian |
| Staff | 1,030 |
| Website | www |
It is the most powerful supercomputing centre for scientific research in Italy,[1] as stated in the TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world: Marconi100, is ranked at the 18th position of the list as of November 2021, with about 30 P/FLOPS.
The consortium's institutional mission is to support the Italian scientific community through supercomputing and scientific visualisation tools. Since the end of the 1980s, Cineca has broadened the scope of its mission by embracing other IT sectors, developing management and administrative services for universities and designing ICT systems for the exchange of information between the MIUR and the Italian national academic system. The consortium is also strongly committed to transfer technology to many categories of users, from public administration to the private enterprises.
Today it merges the specificities and competences of the other two Italian high performance computing consortia, CILEA and Caspur: as a unique reference point for technology innovation in Italy, with its services Cineca supports the whole higher education and research system.
Cineca takes part in several research projects funded by the European Union for the promotion and development of IT technologies (grid computing, bioinformatic, digital content, the promotion of transnational access to European supercomputing centres, etc.).
Activities
editIt supports the scientific community by means of high performance computing, develops management systems for the university administrations and for the Ministry of Universities and Research, designs and develops information systems for businesses, health care organizations and public administration.
See also
edit- Fermi (supercomputer)
- Leonardo (supercomputer)
- Pico (supercomputer), the supercomputer installed at CINECA's data center
- Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo per l'Elaborazione Automatica, merged into CINECA in 2013
References
edit- Cineca, «uso disinvolto di soldi pubblici» Indagine su ex manager della partecipata[2]
- Bologna, al Cineca sciopero bulgaro[3]
- Tutti gli strafalcioni del Concorso scuola[4]
- ^ TOP500 List – November 2021, retrieved 15 December 2021
- ^ "Cineca, "uso disinvolto di soldi pubblici" Indagine su ex manager della partecipata". 10 August 2016.
- ^ "Bologna, al Cineca sciopero bulgaro". 5 October 2016.
- ^ "Tutti gli strafalcioni del Concorso scuola". 4 October 2016.