1. Overview of the CAPRI Platform

CAPRI (Calcolo ad Alte Prestazioni per la Ricerca e l’Innovazione) is a computing platform.

It consists of a frontend node and a HPE Superdome Flex system equipped with

  • 16 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6130 @ 2.10GHz CPU

  • 6 TB of RAM

  • 2 NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB GPU

  • 40 TB of disk space

Access to the computing resources is regulated through the SLURM scheduler.

The system is equipped with some system software managed by the administrators. The software catalog can be extended by:

  • Requesting the installation system wide, if the software is considered useful for a large user group, by using the CAPRI Helpdesk System

  • Installing your own software from source or using the SPACK package manager

  • Installing your software(s) inside a Singularity container

1.1. Acknowledge the CAPRI platform / Scientific citations

Please remember that, as a user, it is your duty to acknowledge CAPRI on your publications whenever the infrastructure is employed.

The following quote can be used:

University of Padova Strategic Research Infrastructure Grant 2017: “CAPRI: Calcolo ad Alte Prestazioni per la Ricerca e l’Innovazione”

1.2. Contributors

This guide is the result of many people’s work. Their names are listed below alphabetically.

If you find this listing is incomplete or contains errors please send an email to <paoloemilio.mazzon@unipd.it>