Regione Emilia-Romagna

ART-ER Attractiveness Research Territory is the Emilia-Romagna Joint Stock Consortium born with the purpose of fostering the region’s sustainable growth by developing innovation and knowledge, attractiveness and internationalisation of the territory.

Interuniversity Consortium, CINECA, is the largest data centre in Italy, one of the most important on a global level. It supports the scientific community via Supercomputing and its applications, produces management systems for university administrators and for the Ministry of University and Research, designs and develops IT systems for Public Administration, health and businesses.

CNAF is the main computing center of INFN (National Institute of Nuclear Physics). It is responsible for the management and development of the main computational and data management services supporting INFN. Since 2003, CNAF has hosted the Italian Tier-1 for the High Energy Physics experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, providing resources, support and the necessary services for data storage, distribution, and data analysis activities.