Section: Scientific Foundations

Introduction

The methodological component of HiePACS concerns the expertise for the design as well as the efficient and scalable implementation of highly parallel numerical algorithms to perform frontier simulations. In order to address these computational challenges a hierarchical organization of the research is considered. In this bottom-up approach, we first consider in Section  3.2 generic topics concerning high performance computational science. The activities described in this section are transversal to the overall project and its outcome will support all the other research activities at various levels in order to ensure the parallel scalability of the algorithms. The aim of this activity is not to study general purpose solution but rather to address these problems in close relation with specialists of the field in order to adapt and tune advanced approaches in our algorithmic designs. The next activity, described in Section  3.3 , is related to the study of parallel linear algebra techniques that currently appear as promising approaches to tackle huge problems on millions of cores. We highlight the linear problems (linear systems or eigenproblems) because they are in many large scale applications the main computational intensive numerical kernels and often the main performance bottleneck. These parallel numerical techniques will be the basis of both academic and industrial collaborations described in Section  4.2 and Section  4.3 , but will also be closely related to some functionalities developed in the parallel fast multipole activity described in Section  3.4 . Finally, as the accuracy of the physical models increases, there is a real need to go for parallel efficient algorithm implementation for multiphysics and multiscale modelling in particular in the context of code coupling. The challenges associated with this activity will be addressed in the framework of the activity described in Section  3.5 .