CRESCO5
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The **CRESCO5 cluster** located in Portici was decommissioned on **06/06/2019**.

The nodes of the **CRESCO5 cluster** were reused in the **Cloud system of the DTE-ICT division**.


Cluster Features
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The **CRESCO5 cluster** in Portici is a computing system composed of **40 compute nodes**.

Each node includes:

- **2 sockets with 8 cores** Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU **E5-2630 v3** processors with a clock frequency of **2.40 GHz** and **64 GB RAM**
- **4 GB per core**, **16 instructions per clock cycle**
- **InfiniBand QDR interface (40 Gb/s, 32 Gb/s effective bandwidth)**
- **Two GbE network interfaces**
- **BMC/IPMI 1.8 support** and software for **remote console management**

Overall the system provides **640 CPU cores** interconnected through a **low-latency, high-bandwidth network** based on **InfiniBand 4xQDR (40 Gb/s)** managed by a **Qlogic 12800 switch**.

The architecture of a **CRESCO5 node** is represented in the following scheme:

.. image:: clusters/cresco5_image1.png
   :align: center
   :width: 1600px

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