Pico (supercomputer)


PICO is an Intel Cluster installed in the data center of Cineca. PICO is intended to enable new "BigData" classes of applications, related to the management and processing of large quantities of data, coming both from simulations and experiments. The cluster is made of an Intel NeXtScale server, designed to optimize density and performance, driving a large data repository shared among all the HPC systems in Cineca.

History

The development of Pico was sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research in 2015.

Specifications

PICO is an Intel Cluster made of 74 nodes of different types, devoted to different purposes, with the common task of data analytics and visualization on large amount of data.

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