{"id":33457,"date":"2026-06-17T15:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dica.polimi.it\/?page_id=33457"},"modified":"2026-06-17T16:08:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:08:58","slug":"hpc-at-dica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dica.polimi.it\/it\/hpc-at-dica\/","title":{"rendered":"HPC at DICA"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"33457\" class=\"elementor elementor-33457\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-924854b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"924854b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-883f83c elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"883f83c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5178144 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5178144\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>High-Performance Computing (HPC) Infrastructure at DICA<\/h3>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">High-Performance Computing (HPC) is extensively used at DICA to model phenomena and process data using a wide variety of computational tools, ranging from software developed in-house at the Department to major commercial software suites.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">While researchers frequently utilize some of the largest HPC infrastructure centers worldwide, such as CINECA, a smaller on-premises facility has been set up to handle lighter computational tasks and testing.<\/p>\n<h3 data-path-to-node=\"6\">Technical Specifications<\/h3>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"7\">The current infrastructure consists of a cluster featuring <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"59\">19 computational nodes<\/b> and <b data-path-to-node=\"7\" data-index-in-node=\"86\">2 service nodes<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul data-path-to-node=\"8\">\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8,0,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"8,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Processor:<\/b> Each computational node is equipped with two Intel Xeon Gold CPUs, delivering a total of <b data-path-to-node=\"8,0,0\" data-index-in-node=\"100\">56 cores per node<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8,1,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"8,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Memory:<\/b> <b data-path-to-node=\"8,1,0\" data-index-in-node=\"8\">512 GB ECC RAM<\/b> per node.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8,1,0\"><b>Operative system:<\/b> RockyLinux 9<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"8,2,0\"><b data-path-to-node=\"8,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Hosting &amp; Access:<\/b> The cluster is hosted within the <i data-path-to-node=\"8,2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"51\">Politecnico Server Farm<\/i> to ensure maximum availability and business continuity. It is securely accessible to authorized users via the departmental VPN.<\/p><\/li><li><p data-path-to-node=\"8,2,0\">Operational since June 2025<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Manrope, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Manrope, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Access and documentation<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Manrope, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Please follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dica.polimi.it\/labc\">this link<\/a> (intranet) to access more documentation and request service&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-Performance Computing (HPC) Infrastructure at DICA High-Performance Computing (HPC) is extensively used at DICA to model phenomena and process data using a wide variety of computational tools, ranging from software&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":813,"parent":0,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33457","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dica.polimi.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dica.polimi.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dica.polimi.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dica.polimi.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dica.polimi.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33457"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.dica.polimi.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33471,"href":"https:\/\/www.dica.polimi.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33457\/revisions\/33471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dica.polimi.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dica.polimi.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}