1. COMETA
Sara Pirrone
INFN

2. COMETA
COMETA, "Consorzio Multi-Ente per la promozione e l'adozione di Tecnologie di calcolo Avanzato“
It is a no-profit research centre founded in It's a consortium made up by public universities and research institutes, and private
COMETA is devoted to promote and coordinate studies and research in the field of High Performance Computing, Grid, Cloud and GPU Computing, in their theoretical aspects and in applications too.

3. COMETA Infrastructure
In these last few years, COMETA has realised  a so large e-Infrastructure distributed in seven sities in Sicily, and has acquired a so specialised know-how in distributed applications, such to  be placed as one of the most advanced research centers.
The infrastructure is built with identical hardware and software on all grid sites. This choice allows interoperabilty and realises an homogeneous environment, a fundamental condition for an HPC grid environment.
The high performance Infrastructure
2000 cores CPU
storage >250 TB
COMETA, "Consorzio Multi-Ente per la promozione e l'adozione di Tecnologie di calcolo Avanzato", is a no-profit research centre founded in It's a consortium made up by public universities and research institutes and private enterprises.
Research activities are developed by COMETA inside specific research projects founded by european and/or national entities, or inside collaboration with private and public research centers and enterprises.

4. COMETA Infrastructure
The infrastructure is built with identical hardware and software on all grid sites. This choice allows interoperabilty and realises an homogeneous environment, a fundamental condition for an HPC grid environment.
7 sites (Catania, Messina and Palermo)
HPC clusters connected by
the gLite grid middleware

5. COMETA Infrastructure
~2000 cores AMD Opteron 2218
Blade Center IBM
2 GB of RAM per core
Infiniband-4X at all sites
250+ TB of raw disk storage

6. COMETA & IGI
The
Network
The
GRID

7. COMETA- Activity
Industrial research and sperimental development realized also in European project or in PON or POR project of the Ministero dell’Università e Ricerca framework
PI2S2 ( PON The main objectives of the project were the realisation of a Sicilian Virtual Laboratory based on GRID to support scientific applications.
EPIKH, call FP7-PEOPLE –IRSES
Progetto MUSS (Mobilità Urbana ed Infraurbana Sostenibile e Sicura), is coordinated by Piaggio and founded by MISE inside "Industria 2015".
EUMEDGRID-Support:
DECIDE,
INDICATE, to establish a network of common interest made up of experts and researchers in the field of e-infrastructures and digital cultural heritage at Euro Mediterranean level
EarthServer
ICARO, POR Sicilia ;
COMETA is involved inmany research project related to HPC, Grid and Cloud Computing. A not complete list is given in the following.

8. COMETA Activity 2. Virtual Data Center
Part of the infrastructure is devoted to realization of Virtual Data Center.
3. Software Development
Promote and coordinate studies and research in the field of High Performance Computing, Grid, Cloud and GPU Computing, in their theoretical aspects and in applications too.
COMETA offers collaboration in the application design and development in HPC, Grid, GPU e Cloud Computing.
Software Porting
4. Training Activity
COMETA carries on dissemination activities about HPC, Grid, Clouds and GPU computing through specific training activities.