Cineca is a non-profit consortium, made up of 70 Italian universities, four national research centres, and the Ministry of Universities and Research (MIUR), and was established in 1969 in Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna.It is the most powerful supercomputing centre for scientific research in Italy, as stated in the TOP500-list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world: Fermi, the supercomputing system IBM Blue Gene/Q installed in June 2012, and ranked at the 7th position on the list, in 2015 is ranked at the 23rd position.The consortium's institutional mission is to support the Italian scientific community through supercomputing and scientific visualisation tools.