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hostname: login.marconi.cineca.it
early availability: 27/06/2016
start of production (A1 - Broadwell): 04/07/2016
start of production (A2 - Knights Landing): 04/01/2017
start of production (A3 - Skylake): 07/08/20172017
start of production (A3+ - Skylake): 23/01/2018
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Marconi is the new Tier-0 system, co-designed by Cineca and based on the Lenovo NeXtScale platform, that substitutes the former IBM BG/Q system (FERMI). MARCONI, based on the next-generation of the Intel® Xeon Phi™ product family alongside with Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family, offers the scientific community a technologically advanced and energy-efficient high performance computing system.
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The new system, logically named ‘MARCONI’, will has been designed to be gradually be completed in about 12 18 months, between April mid 2016 and July 2017beginning 2018, according to a plan based on a series of updates:
- A1: a preliminary system going into production in July 2016, based on Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family (Broadwell) with a computational power of 2Pflop/s.
- A2: a new section has been added at the start of 2017, equipped with the next-generation of the Intel Xeon Phi product family (Knights Landing), based on a many-core architecture, enabling an overall configuration of about 250 thousand cores with expected additional computational power of approximately 11Pflop/s.
- A3: finally, in July 2017 - January 2018, this system is planned to reach system reaches a total computational power of about 20Pflop/s making use of the future generation Intel Xeon processors (Sky Lakes).
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The progressive development of the Marconi system will allow allows use of state-of-the-art processor technology, enabling an extremely high-performance system but still with a ‘green’ soul. One of the parameters of the project developed by the Cineca team is in fact to gradually increase the computational power up to 50Pflop/s without exceeding, at any stage, the limit of 3MWatt power consumption (see here the full https://wiki.u-gov.it/confluence/display/SCAIUS/Marconi+press+release+-+English).
The "Marconi operation" is completed by: step one Marconi A1, step two Marconi A2 at the end will be the installation of Marconi A3.
Marconi A2 has 3600 server Intel AdamPass → 11 PFlops, Intel PHI code name Knight Landing (KNL) 68 cores @ 1.4GHz, Single socket node: 96 GByte DDR4 + 16GByte MCDRAM.
System Architecture
Architecture: Intel OmniPath Cluster
Internal Network: Intel OmniPath Architecture 2:1 Disk Space: 17PB (raw) of local storage
Disk Space: 17PB (raw) of local storage
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