The lab includes a High Performance Computer (HPC) consisting of 8 CPU nodes, each with 64 cores and 1 terabyte (TB) of RAM, as well as 2 GPU nodes consisting of 4 Nvidia A100 cards for a total of 6,912 CUDA cores and 80GB of memory at 1,935 GBps. The HPC also has two memory systems, one hot (scratch) and one cold (NFS), each with 700 TB of storage.
The SIFÀ-IUSS Lab allows for complex calculations that would be beyond the capabilities of a standard computer. SIFÀ-IUSS thus broadens the horizons of research developed at IUSS by providing a tool that few Italian universities currently possess. The laboratory is currently used by nine IUSS research groups (CAELUS, CARISMA, CIRTA, CORDA, FLOWLAB, ICoN, NepLab, NetS, ROSE), by PhD students of the National Doctorate in "Sustainable Development and Climate Change" (SDC) and by EUCENTRE, which hosts the facility.
The SIFÀ-IUSS laboratory therefore represents a key resource for research within the School and for all its research groups.
Research activities range from the analysis of climate change and its impacts to the examination of economic scenarios, linguistics, and beyond. The laboratory is available to all School personnel upon request, as well as to all IUSS doctoral candidates, including those enrolled in the National PhD Program in “Sustainable Development and Climate Change” (SDC) based at other institutions.
Ongoing research projects:
-Progetto CoPe (Convection-Permitting models) within the RETURN Extended Partnership and received funding from the European Union Next-GenerationEU (National Recovery and Resilience Plan – NRRP, Mission 4, Component 2, Investment 1.3—D.D. 1243 2/8/2022, PE0000005, CUP J33C22002840002).
-Progetto T-GRA2L (Testing GRAdeness and GRAmmaticality in Linguistics) funded by Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca MUR and the European Union Next-GenerationEU, National Recovery and Resilience Plan – NRRP, Mission 4, Component C2, Investment 1.1—D.D. 1243 2/8/2022, 202223PL4N, CUP I53D23003900006).
-Progetto SYN-CROSS (Syntactic Flexibility in Developmental Language Disorder. A Cross-Linguistic Study) founded by Horizon Europe (HORIZON), MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 grant (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 101207792, PIC 997963355)
Head: Prof.ssa Giorgia Fosser
Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Mario Lloyd Virgilio Martina
Technical Manager: Claudio Rolandi
Contact person for CAELUS group: Prof. Andrea Tiengo
Contact person for CARISMA group: Prof.ssa Giorgia Fosser
Contact person for CIRTA group: Prof. Andrea Taramelli
Contact person for CORDA group: Prof. Denis Sarigiannis
Contact person for FLOWLAB group: Prof.ssa Annalisa Bonfiglio
Contact person for ICoN group: Prof. Nicola Canessa
Contact person for NepLab group: Prof.ssa Valentina Bambini
Contact person for NeTS group: Prof. Cristiano Chesi
Contact person for ROSE group: Prof. Gerard O'Reilly
The full list of publications is available on the following page of the IRIS archive.
The laboratory is located at the EUCENTRE Foundation, Via Adolfo Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia (PV), Italy.
For further information, please contact: giorgia.fosser@iusspavia.it