Technological, infrastructural, and operational support to the research activities of the Scuola Normale, operating in support of the HPC Centre and ensuring the management and evolution of the infrastructures, as well as the digital services and web hosting relating to research projects and scientific dissemination.

Main activities

• Operational, procedural, and administrative support to the HPC Centre's Management Committee in the carrying out of the activities specified in the Centre's Procedural Guidelines, including the preparation of the documentation and support to the management of the budget.
• Co-ordination of hosting activities and maintenance of the infrastructural apparatus of the HPC Centre, and technical-logistical support to the research groups and to the projects hosted.
• Management of the HPC infrastructures, including the planning, installation, and maintenance of the hardware and software components needed for carrying out simulation, numerical analysis, modelling, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and other complex scientific operations.
• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of the operational systems and workload managers in support of the calculation system, striving for efficiency, reliability, and adaptation to the requirements of the research.
• Management of the infrastructure of virtualisation and of the services based on virtual machines and technologies of containerisation, in support of calculation, development, and scientific experimentation settings.
• Management of storage resources, including the allocation and monitoring of quota usage, protection of research data, and support to the storage requirements of scientific groups and projects.
• Planning and management of the infrastructure for provisioning and hosting of websites, portals ,and digital services in support of research activities and scientific dissemination.
• Technical and IT support to the ongoing activities of the Historical Archives Office up to their conclusion.