Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 & H2020 Projects

HPC4E

• Title: HPC for Energy

• Programm: H2020

• Duration: 2015 - 2018

• Coordinator: Barcelona Supercomputing Center

• Inria contact: Stephane Lanteri

• Objectives: This project has three general objectives and a large list of specific technical objectives related with research in each technology:

  1. The main objective is to develop beyond the state of the art high performance simulation tools that can help the energy industry to respond future energy demands and also to carbon related envir onmental issues using the state of the art HPC systems.

  2. Improve the cooperation between energy industries from EU and Brazil. The project includes relevant energy industral partners from Brazil and EU, which will benefit from the project’s results. They guarantee that TRL of the project technologies will be very high

  3. Improve the cooperation between the leading research centres in EU and Brazil in HPC applied to energy industry. This includes sharing supercomputing infrastructures between Brazil and EU. The cross fertilization between energy related problems and other scientific fields will be beneficial at both sides of the Atlantic.

EXA2CT

• Type: FP7

• Defi: Special action

• Instrument: Specific Targeted Research Project

• Objectif: Exascale computing platforms, software and applications

• Duration: September 2013 - August 2016

• Coordinator: IMEC, Belgium

• Partner: Particular specializations and experience of the partners are:

  • Applications:

    • NAG - long experience in consultancy for HPC applications

    • Intel France - collaboration with industry on the migration of software for future HPC systems

    • TS-SFR - long experience in consultancy for HPC applications in Aerospace and Oil & Gas

  • Algorithms – primarily numerical:

    • UA - broad experience in numerical solvers, with some taken up by the PETSc numerical library and other work published in high-ranking journals such as Science.

    • USI - expertise in parallel many-core algorithms for real-world applications on emerging architectures

    • Inria - expertise on large scale parallel numerical algorithms

    • IT4I - experience in the development of scalable solvers for large HPC systems (e.g. PRACE)

  • Programming Models & Runtime Environments:

    • Imec - leads the programming model research within the Flanders ExaScience Lab

    • UVSQ - specialized in code optimization and performance evaluation in the area of HPC

    • TS-SFR - leading the BMBF funded GASPI project

    • Fraunhofer - developed a GASPI runtime environment used in industrial applications

  • Hardware Optimization:

    • Intel France - investigates workloads for new hardware architectures within the context of the Exascale Computing Research centre

• Inria contact: Luc Giraud

• Abstract: The EXA2CT project brings together experts at the cutting edge of the development of solvers, related algorithmic techniques, and HPC software architects for programming models and communication. We will produce modular open source proto-applications that demonstrate the algorithms and programming techniques developed in the project, to help boot-strap the creation of genuine exascale codes.

  Numerical simulation is a crucial part of science and industry in Europe. The advancement of simulation as a discipline relies on increasingly compute intensive models that require more computational resources to run. This is the driver for the evolution to exascale. Due to limits in the increase in single processor performance, exascale machines will rely on massive parallelism on and off chip, with a complex hierarchy of resources. The large number of components and the machine complexity introduce severe problems for reliability and programmability.