Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

Contracts with Industry

We are involved in a common project with the company AxesSim in Strasbourg. The objective is to help to the development of a commercial software for the numerical simulation of electromagnetic phenomena. The applications are directed towards antenna design and electromagnetic compatibility. This project was partly supported by DGA through "RAPID" (régime d’appui à l’innovation duale) funds. A CIFRE PhD has started in AxesSim on the same kinds of subjects in March 2015 (Bruno Weber). The new project is devoted to the use of runtime system in order to optimize DG solvers applied to electromagnetism [10]. The resulting software will be applied to the numerical simulation of connected devices for clothes or medicine. The project is supported by the "Banque Publique d’Investissement" (BPI) and coordinated by the Thales company.

ANR

• ANR project PEPPSI (models for edge plasma physic in Tokamak) in Programme Blanc SIMI 9, started in 2013, ended this year.

  Participants : David Coulette, Giovanni Manfredi [coordinator] , Sever Hirstoaga.

IPL FRATRES

The TONUS project belongs to the IPL FRATRES (models and numerical methods for Tokamak).

Funded by the IPL, Xiaofei Zhao was a post-doctoral fellow until September 2017, under the joint supervision of Nicolas Crouseilles (team IPSO, Inria Rennes) and Sever Hirstoaga.

IPL C2S@exa

The TONUS and HIEPACS projects have obtained the financial support for the PhD thesis of Nicolas Bouzat thanks to the IPL C2S@exa (computational sciences at exascale). Nicolas Bouzat works at CEA Cadarache and is supervised locally by Guillaume Latu; the PhD advisors are Michel Mehrenberger and Jean Roman.

HPC resources

• GENCI project Simulation numérique des plasmas par des méthodes semi-lagrangiennes et PIC adaptées: 450 000 scalar computing hours on CURIE_standard (January 2016-January 2017). Coordinator: Michel Mehrenberger

  Participants : Sever Hirstoaga, Guillaume Latu, Michel Mehrenberger, Thi Nhung Pham, Christophe Steiner, Yann Barsamian.

• GENCI project Simulations 3D de plasmas deux espèces avec des méthodes particulaires et semi-lagrangiennes: 400 000 scalar computing hours accepted in October 2017 on supercomputer OCCIGEN. Coordinator: Sever Hirstoaga

  Participants : Yann Barsamian, Sever Hirstoaga, Michel Mehrenberger.

• PRACE project SME HPC Adoption Programme in Europe: full simulation of an electromagnetic wave inside and ouside a fully modeled human body: 40 000 GPU computing hours accepted in October 2017 on supercomputer Piz Daint. Coordinator: Bruno Weber

  Participants : Philippe Helluy, Bruno Weber.