THE NAPLES GROUP: RESOURCES
SCoPE Datacenter of more than 3.000 CPU/core
and 300TB including infiniband and MPI Library
in supporting Fast Simulation activy and the
“Electron Cloud Effects in SuperB” in collaboration
with the Frascati Group and with Dr. Theo Demma
Tier2 of Atlas About 1.000 CPU that support the
superbvo.org VO for Fast Sim
A Farm of 12 Server PowerEdge R510
With 10Gbit/s network dedicate for
R&D activity
New NVIDIA PCI EXPANDER
with 4 Tesla GPGPU for R&D
THE NAPLES GROUP: ACTIVITY
Designing and promoting the new
distributed computer facility in south Italy
(Pon RECAS 2011 INFN,UNINA, and UNIBA)
R&D In Storage and data
Management- New Cluster Setup
and new network topology .
Development of the Multilevel
Monitoring System for all the main
aspect: Data, Computing, Storage,
Network and Middleware
• Software Distribution Framework for SuperB
• CVMFS In testing
• Study New Computing topology using GPGPU
THE RECAS PROJECT
Characteristics of the
«call for projects»
• P.O.N. (National Operational Programme) is
funded by EU
• Funding is strictly limited to 4 southern
regions
• Project to be presented by Aug. 11th
• Funding request: min 15 M€, max 45 M€
• Only for «large» infrastructure, including grid
• About 9,5% is for educational purposes
Characteristics of our project
• Amount requested: 44,5 M€
• Partecipants:
– INFN (NA, BA, CT, CS)
– UniNA
– UniBA
• INFN: 22,5; UniNA: 11 M€; UniBA: 11 M€
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Key persons
• L. Merola (NA - head, empowering project)
• R. Bellotti (BA – head, educational project)
• G. Russo (NA - relationship with funding
agency; proposal submission and follow-up)
• One administrative officer for each partner