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Mont-Blanc 2
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Project title: Mont-Blanc: European scalable and power efficient HPC platform based on low-power embedded technology
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Other partners: BULL - Bull SAS (France), STMicroelectronics - (GNB SAS) (France), ARM - (United Kingdom), JUELICH - (Germany), BADW-LRZ - (Germany), USTUTT - (Germany), CINECA - (Italy), CNRS - (France), Inria - (France), CEA - (France), UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL - (United Kingdom), ALLINEA SW LIM - (United Kingdom)
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Abstract: Energy efficiency is already a primary concern for the design of any computer system and it is unanimously recognized that future Exascale systems will be strongly constrained by their power consumption. This is why the Mont-Blanc project has set itself the following objective: to design a new type of computer architecture capable of setting future global High Performance Computing (HPC) standards that will deliver Exascale performance while using 15 to 30 times less energy. Mont-Blanc 2 contributes to the development of extreme scale energy-efficient platforms, with potential for Exascale computing, addressing the challenges of massive parallelism, heterogeneous computing, and resiliency. Mont-Blanc 2 has great potential to create new market opportunities for successful EU technology, by placing embedded architectures in servers and HPC.
The Mont-Blanc 2 proposal has 4 objectives:
1. To complement the effort on the Mont-Blanc system software stack, with emphasis on programmer tools (debugger, performance analysis), system resiliency (from applications to architecture support), and ARM 64-bit support.
2. To produce a first definition of the Mont-Blanc Exascale architecture, exploring different alternatives for the compute node (from low-power mobile sockets to special-purpose high-end ARM chips), and its implications on the rest of the system.
3. To track the evolution of ARM-based systems, deploying small cluster systems to test new processors that were not available for the original Mont-Blanc prototype (both mobile processors and ARM server chips).
4. To provide continued support for the Mont-Blanc consortium, namely operations of the Mont-Blanc prototype, and hands-on support for our application developers
QUANTICOL
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Program: The project is a member of Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems (FOCAS), a FET-Proactive Initiative funded by the European Commission under FP7.
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Project title: A Quantitative Approach to Management and Design of Collective and Adaptive Behaviours
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Coordinator: Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
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Other partners: University of Edinburgh (Scotland); Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie della Informazione (Italy); IMT Lucca (Italy) and University of Southampton (England).
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Abstract: The main objective of the QUANTICOL project is the development of an innovative formal design framework that provides a specification language for collective adaptive systems (CAS) and a large variety of tool-supported, scalable analysis and verification techniques. These techniques will be based on the original combination of recent breakthroughs in stochastic process algebras and associated verification techniques, and mean field/continuous approximation and control theory. Such a design framework will provide scalable extensive support for the verification of developed models, and also enable and facilitate experimentation and discovery of new design patterns for emergent behaviour and control over spatially distributed CAS.
HPC4E
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Europe: Lancaster University (ULANC), Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Repsol S.A. (REPSOL), Iberdrola Renovables Energía S.A. (IBR), Total S.A. (TOTAL).
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Brazil: Fundação Coordenação de Projetos, Pesquisas e Estudos Tecnoclógicos (COPPE), National Laboratory for Scientific Computation (LNCC), Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), Petroleo Brasileiro S. A. (PETROBRAS), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (INF-UFRGS), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (CER-UFPE)
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Abstract: The main objective of the HPC4E project 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 environmental issues using the state-of-the-art HPC systems. The other objective is to improve the cooperation between energy industries from EU and Brazil and the cooperation between the leading research centres in EU and Brazil in HPC applied to energy industry. The project includes relevant energy industrial 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. 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.
Collaborations with Major European Organizations
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EPFL: Laboratoire pour les communications informatiques et leurs applications 2, Institut de systèmes de communication ISC, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). We collaborate with Jean-Yves Leboudec (EPFL) and Pierre Pinson (DTU) on electricity markets.
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TU Wien: Research Group Parallel Computing, Technische Universität Wien (Austria). We collaborate with Sascha Hunold on experimental methodology and reproducibility of experiments in HPC. In particular we co-organize the REPPAR workshop on “Reproducibility in Parallel Computing”.
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BSC (Barcelona): Barcelona Supercomputer Center (Spain). We collaborate with the performance evaluation group through the HPC4E project, the Mont-blanc 2 project, and the JLESC.
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University of Edinburgh and Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie della Informazione: we strongly collaborate through the Quanticol European project.