Strengthening of the Italian Research Infrastructure for Metrology and Open Access Data in support to the Agrifood
ENEA6 – HPC and data center
(Reference person: Angelo Mariano)
The HPC and data center OU belongs to the ICT Division, which oversees the development and management of ICT technologies in support to ENEA’s R&D activities. In the framework of this general mission: it manages and guarantees the full ICT operation of ENEA and of its research centers distributed over Italy, including software and hardware infrastructures for scientific computing, geographical data networks, theirconnection to national and international networks, local area networks, and related services such as databases, multimedia services, virtualisation farms, multipurpose cloud services, centralised backup services, supporting services to scientific users; it carries out R&D activities in the domains of distributed and High-Performance Computing, ultrahigh throughputdata networks, artificial intelligence algorithms training and validation, interoperability of heterogeneous systems such as large scientific instruments and scientific laboratories, and on specific industry-driven applications; it collaborates in several European projects to develop innovative HPC solutions and open data technologies. Nowadays, ENEA runs a major computing center in Portici (Naples), where most of the CRESCO project activities started more than 15 years ago. The most important HPC computer of the CRESCO family is CRESCO6, a HPC system consisting of 434 nodes, ranked 420th in the TOP500 list of November 2018.
CRESCO6 HPC
Angelo Mariano
Is researcher at the ENEA TERIN-ICT Division, PhD in Theoretical Physics, adjunct professor of “Deep Learning and Generative Models” at the Bari University. Project manager in the ICT sector, web and mobile, since 2000. Since 2010 he is in charge of the High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster located in Brindisi devoted to support ENEAGrid users in mathematical modeling and data science projects. From 2015, manager of R&D projects related to educational computing, service-oriented architectures, HPC best he practices for scientific applications. He collaborates with the Department of Physics and INFN at the Bari University in the fields of data center management, complex systems, big data and machine learning. Currently he is in charge of R&D projects aiming at applying disruptive digital technologies in different domains.
Fiorenzo Ambrosino
Ph.D. is researcher at ENEA since 2007. He graduated in Aerospace Engineering in 2005 and obtained a PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2011, on topics related to Computational Fluid Dynamics, at University of Naples “Federico II”. In 2006 and 2007 has worked at several Italian aeronautical companies as designer and structural aeronautical engineer. At ENEA he works in the High-Performance Computing laboratory, mainly focused on the CRESCO HPC facilities and HPC systems administration. His research is mainly related to Computational Fluid Dynamics and Computer Science. On these topics, he has co-authored some journal articles, conference papers, technical reports and has developed some practical software tools.