Galileo will stop its production phase in a few months. We will post the definite shutdown date soon.
All projects and usernames active on GALILEO when production stops will be allowed to access to MARCONI (BDW partition) on the basis of a scheduled time frames
that will be communicated in details later on this fall, during which all users should migrate to MARCONI
New Projects on MARCONI
All projects active on GALILEO with end date after final shutdown day will be duplicated on MARCONI.
The project budget on MARCONI will be set to the residual budget of the original project on GALILEO at July the 4th, with 1-to-1 ratio (one core-h on GALILEO = one core-h on MARCONI).
The project name and residual budget on MARCONI can be visualized with the command:
saldo -b
The users will have the possibility to run their jobs on both clusters up to final shutdown day.
How to move data from GALILEO to MARCONI
GALILEO storage is not shared with MARCONI. The user should move the data of interest by himself/herself. In this page we will post suggestions on how to move data as soon as possible. GALILEO interactive logins (login.marconi.cineca.it) and storage areas $HOME, $CINECA_SCRATCH and $WORK will remain accessible to users up to December 31st, 2017.
How to get familiar with MARCONI
MARCONI is an HPC cluster, made of three different partitions: A1 (based on Broadwell nodes), A2 (based on Knightslanding nodes) and A3 (based on Skylake nodes, to be installed this summer). The HPC Users' Guide for MARCONI can be found 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 only.
On MARCONI the latest releases of Intel and Gnu compilers and related libraries are available. Users will need to re-compile their own codes before using them on MARCONI compute nodes, in order to exploit the advanced features of the new hardware.
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. On Marconi a new feature has been added to the module environment: the profiles are of two types, “domain” type (chem, phys, lifesc,..) for the production activity and “programming” type (base and advanced) for compilation, debugging and profiling activities, and they can be loaded together. Please, see the on-line guide: MARCONI UserGuide. All the applications available on GALILEO should be present also on MARCONI.
Sometimes on MARCONI are present newer releases than on GALILEO and we do not plan to install older versions.
If the application you are interested in is not present on Marconi, please feel free to ask superc@cineca.it.
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