[HPC-NEWS] GAIA, the new large-scale HPC Cloud Infrastructure for research, is available in pre-production

[HPC Cineca]

GAIA, the new large-scale HPC Cloud Infrastructure for research, is available in pre-production  (https://www.hpc.cineca.it/newsletter/gaia-the-new-large-scale-hpc-cloud-infrastructure-for-research-is-available-in-pre-production/) 

30 July 2026 

Dear Users,  

We are happy to announce that GAIA, the CINECA's large-scale HPC Cloud Infrastructure for scientific and technological research, is now available in pre-production. 

GAIA combines cloud flexibility with High Performance Computing power. 

Hosted at CINECA Dama Technopole in Bologna, it supports data processing, analysis and data management services, sensitive workloads, and Kubernetes-based deployment and orchestration. 

Based on OpenStack virtualization tool version Epoxy, available via the Horizon dashboard at https://cloud.gaia.cineca.it, it includes 500 Dell servers with over 130,000 physical cores and 256 NVIDIA GPUs. The storage includes 10 PB raw Ceph and 50 PB full-flash VAST system, suitable for HPC-and-cloud synergy.  

GAIA operates under an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model: CINECA manages hardware and virtualization, while users control their environments.  

The system empowers researchers with scalable, customizable, and high-performance resources.  

An overview of the GAIA technical features is available at the url [1].  

For any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.  

Best regards HPC User Support @ CINECA  

  
[1] GAIA specifics:   https://docs.hpc.cineca.it/cloud/systems/gaia.html#gaia-card  (https://docs.hpc.cineca.it/cloud/systems/gaia.html#gaia-card)   



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