Ricerc@Sapienza

TeraStat2 is an HPC infrastructure developed by the Dipartimento of Scienze Statistiche and hosted by the InfoSapienza IT center of University of Rome - La Sapienza. It provides a general-purpose, massively parallel supercomputing infrastructure for solving large mathematical models on Big Data. 

In its current iteration, TeraStat2 includes about 2,000 computing units and over 5 Tb of physical RAM. TeraStat2's computing nodes are interconnected via a low-latency 40 Gbps Infiniband link, enabling high-speed communications required for high-throughput distributed applications.

Basic access is provided free of charge to all Sapienza members. Instead, research groups that require a large amount of computing resources pay a fee proportional to their usage. These funds are then used to cover the costs of ordinary and extraordinary maintenance and provide a basis for future infrastructure expansion.

This infrastructure is used both to conduct basic applied research activities and as a means to accelerate the development of large-scale research initiatives involving the analysis of big data.