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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 & H2020 Projects

EXA2CT
  • Type: COOPERATION

  • Instrument: Specific Targeted Research Project

  • Objectif: NC

  • Duration: September 2013 - August 2016

  • Coordinator: Imec, Belgium

  • Partner: UA Belgium, USI Switzerland, Intel France, NAG England, UVSQ France, T-Systems SfR Germany, IT4Inovations Czech Republic.

  • Inria contact: Luc Giraud

  • Abstract: The goal of this project is to develop novel algorithms and programming models to tackle what will otherwise be a series of major obstacles to using a crucial component of many scientific codes at exascale, namely solvers and their constituents. The results of this work will be combined in running programs that demonstrate the application-targeted use of these algorithms and programming models in the form of proto-applications. The application targeting will be done by an analysis of a representative selection of scientific applications using solvers and/or the constituent parts that we target. The results of the project will be disseminated to the reference application owners through a scientific and industrial board (SIB), and board-partner specific code targeting activities, to help generate momentum behind our approach in the HPC community. The proto-applications will serve as a proof-of-concept, a benchmark for doing machine/software co-design, and as a basis for constructing future exascale full applications. In addition, the use of the SIB is a means to extract the commonalities of a range of HPC problems from different scientific domains and different industrial sectors to be able to concentrate on maximising the impact of the project by improving precisely those parts that are common across different simulation needs.

  • Alpines role: in charge of the Task "Preconditioners" in the working group focusing on numerical algorithms.