Cineca is a non-profit Interuniversity Consortium founded in 1969 to allow the university world to have powerful computers for scientific computing.
The four universities that gave it life, together with MIUR (Ministry of Education, University and Research), were joined by numerous partners, for a total of ninety-eight members, including two ministries, sixty-nine universities and twenty-seven public institutions national – ten research institutions, five university hospitals, ten AFAM (Higher Education in Art, Music and Dance) institutions.
Immediately after the installation of the first supercomputer, CINECA set itself the institutional goal of developing management and administrative systems for universities and sharing its skills with Public Administration, businesses and services.
Learn more: www.cineca.it