{"id":253,"date":"2023-09-12T23:27:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T21:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/140.105.79.7\/?page_id=253"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:50:02","slug":"attivita","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uscc.inaf.it\/en\/attivita\/","title":{"rendered":"Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This page summarizes the activities that have defined, currently define, and will characterize the work of the INAF USC-C group. These are divided into the following main macro-groups: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Training<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u00b7 schools
\u00b7 scholarships
\u00b7 refresher courses<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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events<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u00b7 INAF National Meetings
\u00b7 USC-C General Assembly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hardware<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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CPU\/GPU computing resources and long-term data preservation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gruppi tematici<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Supporto a gruppi di aggregazione spontanea per la discussione di temi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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General Scope of Activities<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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As a reference for future planning, service utilization, and institutional collaboration, please note that INAF USC-C: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/path><\/svg><\/span> IS intended for<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/path><\/svg><\/span> Attempting to create synergies between the various major projects,<\/strong>with coordination<\/strong> of work on specific \u201ctransversal\u201d aspects,<\/strong>as well as, on recurring problems, through the reuse of expertise already gained elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/path><\/svg><\/span> Providing IT bases,<\/strong>through courses\/schools\/events, so that the individual or small group of researchers<\/strong> can deal with their own problems<\/strong> in almost complete autonomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/path><\/svg><\/span> Organize Meetings and refresher courses<\/strong> for the personnel assigned to these roles, e.g. Information Systems Coordination Group (GCSI).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/path><\/svg><\/span> IS NOT INTENDED FOR<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/path><\/svg><\/span> Coordinate<\/strong> the work within large projects,<\/strong>whose structure, hardware and organization will remain at the complete discretion\/availability of the projects themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/path><\/svg><\/span> Enter into the micro-management<\/strong> of the computing activities of the individual or small groups of researchers, based on one or a few computing and\/or storage servers<\/strong> and on specific in-house developed software.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/path><\/svg><\/span> Deal with the administrative calculation and\/or related to personnel databases,<\/strong>which remains under the jurisdiction of the General Director.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Training<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Training is a transversal activity<\/strong> supporting all four implementation sectors. It is based on the following initiatives:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/path><\/svg><\/span> Scholarships for existing Masters<\/strong> at other Organizations and Institutions, , and for Doctorates<\/strong> at Universities (to be confirmed)

<\/path><\/svg><\/span> Lectures, for students, contractors and personnel,<\/strong> structured on individual specific topics: eg. porting of codes to HPC, methodologies for Machine Learning, exploitation of GPUs, use of containerization, continuous integration etc\u2026

<\/path><\/svg><\/span> Certified refresher courses<\/strong> for structured staff (on institutional funds for training)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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eventi usc-c<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We plan to organize:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/path><\/svg><\/span> Recurring National Meetings for INAF<\/strong> (and external) members on individual specific issues. Objectives: <\/strong>knowledge of reciprocal activities, development of new opportunities for synergy, team-up.
Indicatively at least 2 meetings of this type per year with a duration of 2-3 days each.

<\/path><\/svg><\/span> USC-C General Assembly,<\/strong>(semi-)annual event with a duration of one week, taking up the fruitful example of the ICT meetings, interrupted in the pandemic phase. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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visualizza gli eventi usc-c<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Support for events<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the events directly organized by USC-C, since June 1, 2023<\/strong> an online form<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/a> is available to request support (economic or practical) from USC-C in organizing events that have to do with USC activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/path><\/svg><\/span> The above link is a \u201cchannel with multiple deadlines during the year\u201d with evaluation, and possible approval, of the proposals within 30 days of each deadline.

<\/path><\/svg><\/span> It is possible to apply in parallel to the general channel of the Scientific Direction<\/strong> for the support of events, but obviously double funding will not normally be possible. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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hardware<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/path><\/svg><\/span> Acquisition<\/strong> of \u22481.5 PetaFlop\/s (with a combination CPU and GPU) and \u224811 PBy (combined between fast disks for computing and disks for long-term preservation) Tier-3 computing system, to be installed inside of one of the CINECA areas at the Bologna Technopole.<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Technopole already hosts the European weather centre ECMWF, the Leonardo super-computer and will host the United Nations University on Climate Change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n


<\/path><\/svg><\/span> Use of a Tier-2 sizing system<\/strong> integrated into a Tier-1 sizing system and becoming the kernel of the Italian node of the SKA Regional Center.<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investment: \u20ac7 million from CN-PNRR for INAF and CNR needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expected capacity for INAF: Approximately $4$ PetaFlop\/s and $\\approx 2$ PBy of high-speed storage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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THEMATIC GROUPS<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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<\/path><\/svg><\/span> The USC-C acts as a facilitator for all self-organized groups formed by individuals interested in specific topics within the community, without taking a direct role in their management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the page linked via the button below, you can find all the thematic groups established to date, as well as the procedures for the potential creation of new discussion groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In questa pagina riassumiamo le attivit\u00e0 che hanno caratterizzato, caratterizzano ed andranno a caratterizzare il lavoro del gruppo INAF USC-C, le quali si dividono nei seguenti macrogruppi principali:  scopo generale delle attivit\u00e0 Come riferimento per la pianificazione futura e per l’utilizzo dei servizi, nonch\u00e9 per la collaborazione per il nostro ente, ci teniamo a chiarire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2043,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"uscc-pages","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-253","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-pagina-completata"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscc.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscc.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscc.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscc.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscc.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"https:\/\/uscc.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2841,"href":"https:\/\/uscc.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions\/2841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscc.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uscc.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscc.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uscc.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}