Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

H2020 Projects

HPC4E

Participants : Reza Akbarinia, Florent Masseglia, Esther Pacitti, Patrick Valduriez.

Project title: High Performance Computing for Energy

Instrument: H2020

Duration: 2015 - 2017

Total funding: 2 Meuros

Coordinator: Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain

Partner: Europe: Inria, Lancaster University, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Repsol S.A., Iberdrola Renovables Energía S.A., Total S.A. Brazil: COPPE/Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, LNCC, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Petrobras.

Inria contact: Patrick Valduriez

The main objective is to develop high performance simulation tools that can help the energy industry to respond future energy demands and also to carbon-related environmental issues using HPC systems. The project also aims at improving the usage of energy using HPC tools by acting at many levels of the energy chain for different energy sources. Another objective is to improve the cooperation between energy industries from EU and Brazil. The project includes relevant energy industral partners from Brazil (Petrobras) and EU (Repsol and Total as O&G industries), which benefit from the project’s results. A last objective is to improve the cooperation between the leading research centres in EU and Brazil in HPC applied to energy. This includes sharing supercomputing infrastructures between Brazil and EU. In this project, Zenith is working on Big Data management and analysis of numerical simulations.

CloudDBAppliance

Participants : Reza Akbarinia, Boyan Kolev, Florent Masseglia, Esther Pacitti, Patrick Valduriez.

Project title: CloudDBAppliance

Instrument: H2020

Duration: 2016 - 2019

Total funding: 5 Meuros (Zenith: 500Keuros)

Coordinator: Bull/Atos, France

Partner: Europe: Inria Zenith, U. Madrid, INESC and the companies LeanXcale, QuartetFS, Nordea, BTO, H3G, IKEA, CloudBiz, and Singular Logic.

Inria contact: Florent Masseglia, Patrick Valduriez

The project aims at producing a European Cloud Database Appliance for providing a Database as a Service able to match the predictable performance, robustness and trustworthiness of on premise architectures such as those based on mainframes. The cloud database appliance features: (i) a scalable operational database able to process high update workloads such as the ones processed by banks or telcos, combined with a fast analytical engine able to answer analytical queries in an online manner; (ii) an operational Hadoop data lake that integrates an operational database with Hadoop, so operational data is stored in Hadoop that will cover the needs from companies on big data; (iii) a cloud hardware appliance leveraging the next generation of hardware to be produced by Bull, the main European hardware provider. This hardware is a scale-up hardware similar to the one of mainframes but with a more modern architecture. Both the operational database and the in-memory analytics engine will be optimized to fully exploit this hardware and deliver predictable performance. Additionally, CloudDBAppliance will tolerate catastrophic cloud data centres failures (e.g. a fire or natural disaster) providing data redundancy across cloud data centres. In this project, Zenith is in charge of designing and implementing the components for analytics and parallel query processing.