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In the last few years simulation and computing have become remarkably important in science and technology. This is true for both research, academic or industrial, and production. CILEA has over 30 years of experience in hardware and software management. It can therefore offer support to both researchers who are looking for a high performance environment for their codes and to small medium enterprises that need more assistance to approach this kind of techniques and resources.

CILEA since its foundation in 1975 has had state-of-the-art computing platforms, constantly upgraded and replaced and that periodically are mentioned in the Top500, the list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world. Users can therefore always find the most suitable architectures and development tools for the solution of their complex computing needs. Whenever possible, CILEA tries also to have computers of different architectures, in order to offer the most suitable one for each specific computing need. Besides the hardware, the most known computing codes and libraries are available. They include both proprietary and open source software, covering a wide spectrum of applications, like mechanical and structural analysis, fluido-dynamics and bioinformatics, to mention a few fields. They are available to the customers with modalities determined by agreements with package distributors.

In the field of high performance computing, CILEA is able to offer services ranging from the simple access to its computers by expert users up to the most complete assistance in the development of new simulations and applications. Users access systems remotely, even through easy to use web interfaces, via the www.supercomputing.it portal. Expert personnel provides user support including on-line assistance, software and libraries installation. But CILEA can also take over the development of completely new applications. When necessary, CILEA can use help from expert researchers from the universities belonging to the Consortium. An updated list of available applications is maintained at www.supercomputing.it portal, area "Supercomputing at CILEA".

CILEA is not in itself a research institution, but it is often involved in research projects as a partner, sharing its facilities and competence. Currently the Consortium is involved in two major projects.

 

The first is LITBIO (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Technologies in Bioinformatics): it is a laboratory funded by the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research with a FIRB2003 grant for the period from 2005 until 2010. The aim of LITBIO is to provide the international bioinformatics community a reliable computing environment, sharing also the competence and knowledge of CILEA's staff. In order to reach this goal, a supercomputer especially designed for bioinformatics applications has been installed.

 

SEPAC (Southern European Partnership for Advanced Computing) is a collaborative project between some of the most important European computing centres and several partners, both academic and industrial. The goal is to offer a privileged environment to test state of the art GRID technologies.

According to its mission of service and promotion of the use of supercomputing, CILEA periodically organises courses concerning software development in advanced computing environment and all the aspects of hardware and software management. Seminars and workshops are also organised in tight cooperation with Indipendent Software Vendors.

For every information about scientific, technological or financial aspects or to ask for a quotation, please contact Giovanni Meloni or Maurizio Cremonesi [ph. +3902269951]. More information is available on the website: www.cilea.it, area "High Performance Computing".

 

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