Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

Collaborations in European Programs, except FP7 & H2020

COLOC: the Concurrency and Locality Challenge (http://www.coloc-itea.org ).

• Program: ITEA2

• Project acronym: COLOC

• Project title: The Concurrency and Locality Challenge

• Duration: November 2014 - November 2017

• Coordinator: BULL/ATOS

• Other partners: BULL/ATOS (France); Dassault Aviation (France) ; Enfeild AB (Sweden); Scilab entreprise (France); Teratec (France); Inria (France); Swedish Defebnse Research Agency - FOI (France); UVSQ (France).

• Abstract: The COLOC project aims at providing new models, mechanisms and tools for improving applications performance and supercomputer resources usage taking into account data locality and concurrency.

NESUS: Network for Ultrascale Computing (http://www.nesus.eu )

• Program: COST

• Project acronym: NESUS

• Project title: Network for Ultrascale Computing

• Duration: April 2014 - April 2018

• Coordinator: University Carlos III de Madrid

• Other partners: more than 35 countries

• Abstract: Ultrascale systems are envisioned as large-scale complex systems joining parallel and distributed computing systems that will be two to three orders of magnitude larger that today’s systems. The EU is already funding large scale computing systems research, but it is not coordinated across researchers, leading to duplications and inefficiencies. The goal of the NESUS Action is to establish an open European research network targeting sustainable solutions for ultrascale computing aiming at cross fertilization among HPC, large scale distributed systems, and big data management. The network will contribute to glue disparate researchers working across different areas and provide a meeting ground for researchers in these separate areas to exchange ideas, to identify synergies, and to pursue common activities in research topics such as sustainable software solutions (applications and system software stack), data management, energy efficiency, and resilience. Some of the most active research groups of the world in this area are members of this proposal. This Action will increase the value of these groups at the European-level by reducing duplication of efforts and providing a more holistic view to all researchers, it will promote the leadership of Europe, and it will increase their impact on science, economy, and society.

Collaborations with Major European Organizations

• Partner 1: INESC-ID, Lisbon, (Portugal)

• Subject 1: Application modeling for for hierarchical memory system

• Partner 2: ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

• Subject 2: Topology mapping

• Partner 3: BSC, Barcelona (Spain)

• Subject 3: High-performance communication on new architectures; load-balancing and meshing.