ENEAGRID/CRESCO

ENEAGRID/CRESCO, an integrated computational infrastructure:

  • offering a production quality, service oriented system for high performance and/or high throughput computing;
  • covering all the computational resources managed and developed by TERIN-ICT, a division of the ENEA Energy Technology Department, connected in a Wide Area Network.
    The most relevant resources are the CRESCO Clusters based on x86_64 architecture; the main site is Portici ENEA Research Center hosting CRESCO8(6 PFlops CPU, 3 PFlops GPU Pontevecchio), CRESCO6 (1.4 PFlops) and CRESCO7 (~500 TFlops CPU) clusters.
    Other clusters, XCRESCO ( ppc64le 1.9 PFlops GPU V100), CRESCO4F (~20 Tflops CPU) and CRESCO4C (10 Tflops CPU), are hosted on Frascati and Casaccia ENEA sites.
  • providing a unified user environment and a homogeneous access method for all ENEA researchers irrespective of their location;
  • implementing tools to facilitate the integration of departments and individual resources and to support to experimental facilities.

A detailed history (in italian) of HPC in ENEA (1961-2022) is available at https://www.aicanet.it/associazione/gruppi-di-lavoro/storia-dellinformatica/calcolo-scientifico-in-italia/enea