CINECA Consorzio Interuniversitario

CINECA is a non profit Consortium, made up of 32 Italian universities, The National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics - OGS, the CNR (National Research Council), and the Ministry of University and Research.

Today it is the largest Italian scientific computing centre and one of the most important worldwide. The present staff consists of more than 350 employees. CINECA is active in the area of technology transfer through high performance scientific computing, development and management of networks and web based services, development and amangement of complex information systems for large amounts of data.
It develops advanced Information Technology applications and services for italian academia, national research institution, industry and Public Administration.
Main EU projects involving CINECA are:

• DEISA –DEISA is one of the two GRID-empowered infrastructures funded by the EU. CINECA leads the Service Activity on Resource Management and Middleware.
• UniGrids – CINECA leaded the Work Package on applications, worked with Fujitsu Lab Europe in the work package on the technological foundations and with ICM on the high level services.
• A-Ware – CINECA leads the project management and the technical testing and participates to all the activities of the project.
• BEinGRID – CINECA is technical coordinator for BE12 and it’s involved in the BE17 as a Grid Expert .