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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

Regional Initiatives

CPER

Participants : Thierry Gautier, Laurent Lefèvre, Christian Perez.

The Leco experimental platform is a new medium size scientific instrument deployed in Grenoble in 2018 and in Lyon in 2019. It was funded by the CPER 2015-2020 LECO++ to investigate research related to BigData and HPC.

Action Exploratoire Inria: EXODE

Participant : Thierry Gautier.

In biology, the vast majority of systems can be modeled as ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Modeling more finely biological objects leads to increase the number of equations. Simulating ever larger systems also leads to increasing the number of equations. Therefore, we observe a large increase in the size of the ODE systems to be solved. A major lock is the limitation of ODE numerical resolution software (ODE solver) to a few thousand equations due to prohibitive calculation time. The AEx ExODE tackles this lock via 1) the introduction of new numerical methods that will take advantage of the mixed precision that mixes several floating number precisions within numerical methods, 2) the adaptation of these new methods for next generation highly hierarchical and heterogeneous computers composed of a large number of CPUs and GPUs. For the past year, a new approach to Deep Learning has been proposed to replace the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with ODE systems. The numerical and parallel methods of ExODE will be evaluated and adapted in this framework in order to improve the performance and accuracy of these new approaches.