Section: New Results

Highlights of the Year

In the context of HPC-PME initiative, we started a collaboration with ALGO'TECH INFORMATIQUE and we have organised one of the first PhD-consultant action implemented by Xavier Lacoste led by Pierre Ramet. ALGO’TECH is one of the most innovative SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) in the field of cabling embedded systems, and more broadly, automatic devices. The main target of the project is to validate the possibility to use the sparse linear solvers of our team in the area of electromagnetic simulation tools developped by ALGO'TECH. This collaboration will be developed next year in the context of the European project FORSTISSIMO. The principal objective of FORTISSIMO is to enable European manufacturing, particularly SMEs, to benefit from the efficiency and competitive advantage inherent in the use of simulation.

As a conclusion of the OPTIDIS project we organized the first International Workshop on Dislocation Dynamics Simulations that was devoted to the latest developments realized worldwide in the field of Discrete Dislocation Dynamics simulations. This international event held in December 10th to the 12th at “Maison de la Simulation” in Saclay, France and attracted 55 participants from many different countries including England, Germany, France, USA, ... The workshop gathered most of the active researchers working on dislocation dynamics from numerical simulations to experimentatios. Thanks to the success of this workshop, a second one will be scheduled in England during 2016.