CINECA , a consortium made up of 13 italian universities, wishes to uphold its candidature in terms of action relative to large-scale scientific and technical facilities, as a centre for the application of super-computing in interdisciplinary research activities. This purpose CINECA wishes to expand its ICARUS project (ERB4050PL930893)to 2 more researchers per year for 2 years (from January 1995 through December 1996) so that "PECO" Researchers may make use of the resources and services here available as their EU colleagues already are doing. Scientific activities and policy of use of CINECA's supercomputing facilities of EEC Researchers will be agreed with an International Scientific Committee. With regard to the supercomputing aspect of the project, CINECA will provide hosted PECO Researchers with training, vector and parallel supercomputing facilities, accesss to scinetific visualisation laboratory and to on-line information service. The Researchers will be provided with the support of CINECA experts for the best use of resources available. The usability of the service provided by CINECA is guaranteed by a capillary and powerful network of data transmission. Cinecanet, in fact, is joined to the High-speed GARR Network (The Italian research communication network). This will allow PECO Researchers to continue using CINECA's facilities from home institution, when they will come back home.CINECA is member of two European associations: the G.E.I.E. RHT EUROSUD and the European Consortium for Experiments and Training in HPC (value programme) both devoted to supercomputing.
The researchers to be hosted can count on the availability of: CRAY CRAY C94/2-128. CRAY T3D with 64 nodes. IBM ES/9021-640. VAX 6000-510. ACS 4400- Automatic Cartridge System. A file server CHALLANGE L Silicon Graphics. The CINECA communication network. The laboratory of scientific visualization . The on-line documentation and information service.