Galileo will stop its production phase on September 4th 2017.
All projects and usernames active on GALILEO after the date will be allow to access to Marconi (BDW partition) starting from from July 4th, 2017.
This means that all users should migrate to Marconi in the time frame: July 4th - September 4th, 2017.
New Projects on Marconi
All projects active on Galileo after September 4th will be duplicated on MARCONI.
The project budget will be set to the residual budget of the original project with the same rate (one core-h on Marconi = one core-h on Galileo).
The project name and residual budget on Marconi could be visualized with the command:
saldo -b
The users will have the possibility to run their jobs on both clusters up to September 4th, 2017.
How to move data from GALILEO to MARCONI
The Galileo storage is not shared with Marconi, the user should move the data of interest by himself. In this page we will post suggestions how to move data as soon as possible.
GALILEO interactive logins and storage areas $HOME, $CINECA_SCRATCH and $WORK will remain accessible to users up to December 31st, 2017.
How to get confident with MARCONI
Marconi is an HPC cluster, made of three different partitions: A1 (based on Broadwell nodes), A2 (based on Knightslanding nodes) and A3 (Skylakes node, to be installed this summer).
The HPC Users' Guide for Marconi can be find at the following link:
https://wiki.u-gov.it/confluence/display/SCAIUS/UG3.1%3A+MARCONI+UserGuide
Users migrating from Galileo will get access to A1 partition.
On Marconi the latest releases of Intel and Gnu compilers and related libraries are available. Users' own codes will need recompilation prior their usage on Marconi compute nodes, in order to get advances of the new hardware.
The Marconi environment is similar to the one of Galileo. The number of cores/node is different, 16 cores on Galileo and 36 on Marconi. The internal network is different too (Omnipath network on Marconi), but the performance should be comparable.
For more info please check our on-line documentation.
Pay attention to the different "module" environment on Marconi. (link). All the applications available on Galileo should be present also on Marconi. Sometimes on Marconi are present more updated application versions and we do not plan to install all versions.
If the application you are interested in is not present on Marconi, please feel free to ask superc@cineca.it.
The present document is upgraded continuously. Come back here often!