Fermi (supercomputer)
Fermi is a 2.097 petaFLOPS supercomputer located at CINECA. History. FERMI is the main HPC computer in CINECA. It was acquired in June 2012 and entered into full production on August 8 the same year. Fermi is the Italian national tier-0 system for scientific research and is also part of the European HPC infrastructure (PRACE). Its procurement was sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. In June 2012, Fermi reached the seventh position on the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world. In the Graph500 list of top supercomputers, Fermi reached the fifth position , testing at 2,567 gigaTEPS (traversed edges per second). Specifications. FERMI is a Blue Gene/Q system, the last generation of the IBM project for designing petascale supercomputers. It consists of 10 racks, two midplanes each, for a total of 10.240 compute nodes and 163.840 cores. The CINECA system consists of 10 racks configured as follows: