FocusCoE at EuroHPC Summit Week 2022
With the support of the FocusCoE project, almost all European HPC Centres of Excellence (CoEs) participated once again in the EuroHPC Summit Week (EHPCSW) this year in Paris, France: the first EHPCSW in person since 2019’s event in Poland. Hosted by the French HPC agency Grand équipement national de calcul intensif (GENCI), the conference was organised by Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), the European Technology Platform for High-Performance Computing (ETP4HPC), The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), and the European Commission (EC).As usual, this year’s event gathered the main European HPC stakeholders from technology suppliers and HPC infrastructures to scientific and industrial HPC users in Europe.
At the workshop on the European HPC ecosystem on Tuesday 22 March at 14:45, where the diversity of the ecosystem was presented around the Infrastructure, Applications, and Technology pillars, project coordinator Dr. Guy Lonsdale from Scapos talked about FocusCoE and the CoEs’ common goal.
Later that day from 16:30 until 18:00h, the FocusCoE project hosted a session titled “European HPC CoEs: perspectives for a healthy HPC application eco-system and Exascale” involving most of the EU CoEs. The session discussed the key role of CoEs in the EuroHPC application pillar, focussing on their impact for building a vibrant, healthy HPC application eco-system and on perspectives for Exascale applications. As described by Dr. Andreas Wierse on behalf of EXCELLERAT, “The development is continuous. To prepare companies to make good use of this technology, it’s important to start early. Our task is to ensure continuity from using small systems up to the Exascale, regardless of whether the user comes from a big company or from an SME”.
Keen interest in the agenda was also demonstrated by attendees from HPC related academia and industry filling the hall to standing room only. In light of the call for new EU HPC Centres of Excellence and the increasing return to in-person events like EHPCSW, the high interest in preparing the EU for Exascale has a bright future.
FocusCoE Hosts Intel OneAPI Workshop for the EU HPC CoEs
On March 2, 2022 FocusCoE hosted Intel for a workshop introducing the oneAPI development environment. In all, over 40 researchers representing the EU HPC Centres of Excellence (CoEs)were able to attend the single day workshop to gain an overview of OneAPI. The 8 presenters from Intel gave presentations through the day covering the OneAPI vision, design, toolkits, a use case with GROMACS (which is already used by some of the EU HPC CoEs), and specific tools for migration and debugging.
Launched in 2019, the Intel OneAPI cross-industry, open, standards-based unified programming model is being designed to deliver a common developer experience across accelerator architectures. With the time saved designing for specific accelerators, OneAPI is intended to enable faster application performance, more productivity, and greater innovation. As summarized on Intel’s OneAPI website, “Apply your skills to the next innovation, and not to rewriting software for the next hardware platform.” Given the work that EU HPC CoEs are currently doing to optimise codes for Exascale HPC systems, any tools that make this process faster and more efficient can only boost CoEs capacity for innovation and preparedness for future heterogeneous systems.
The OneAPI industry initiative is also encouraging collaboration on the oneAPI specification and compatible oneAPI implementations. To that end, Intel is investing time and expertise into events like this workshop to give researchers the knowledge they need not only to use but help improve OneAPI. The presenters then also make themselves available after the workshop to answer questions from attendees on an ongoing basis. Throughout our event, participants were continuously able to ask questions and get real-time answers as well as offers for further support from software architects, technical consulting engineers, and the researcher who presented a use case. Lastly, the full video and slides from presentations are available below for any CoEs who were unable to attend or would like a second look at the detailed presentations.
NAFEMS 2021 World Congress
In the last week of October, nearly 950 participants from industry and academia gathered for the International Association for the Engineering Modeling, Analysis and Simulation 2021 World Congress (NWC21). Originally planned as a hybrid event, all programming unfortunately had to be shifted online. However, this year’s Congress was also held in conjunction with the 5th International SPDM (Simulation Process & Data Management) Conference, the NAFEMS Multiphysics Simulation Conference, and a dedicated Automotive CAE Symposium.
Unsurprisingly, the online and truly globally accessible conference also attracted a record breaking over 550 abstract submissions. Among those accepted, EXCELLERAT and POP Centres of Excellence gave five 20-minute presentations ranging from improving airplane simulations to improving the new user HPC experience. Throughout the week Monday – Thursday, representatives from EXCELLERAT, POP, and FocusCoE also presented more general videos and materials on current projects at their 3D interactive virtual booth. This year, we welcomed over 100 visitors to the booth, and the completely new NAFEMS World of Engineering Simulation 3D experience had up to 600 conference participants strolling the virtual exhibition hall at any given time.
Beginning on Tuesday the 26th, Ricard Borrell presented Airplane Simulations on Heterogeneous Pre-Exascale Architectures on behalf of EXCELLERAT CoE. He used the example of improved airplane aerodynamics simulations to discuss how their Alya code is preparing researchers to fully utilise the next generation of Exascale HPC systems and their heterogeneous hardware architectures. Without codes optimised like Alya, current HPC codes wouldn’t be capable of running in parallel on different types of processors to the extent that new Exascale systems will require. Thus, they would use only a fraction of the speed and processing power available at Exascale.
Continuing in this theme, Amgad Dessoky presented an overview of how the EXCELLERAT Centre of Excellence is Paving the Way for the Development to Exascale Multiphysics Simulations including the 6 computational codes they are optimizing for Exascale: Nek5000, Alya, AVBP, TPLS, FEniCS, and Coda. Using automotive, aerospace, energy, and manufacturing industrial sector use cases, he described the common challenges for developers and potential users of HPC Exascale applications. Participants were also invited to discuss how EXCELLERAT can best support the needs and required competencies of the Multiphysics simulation community going forward.
One of these required competencies is the ability to understand and improve the performance bottlenecks of parallel codes. In answer, Federico Panichi presented a talk titled Improving the Performance of Engineering Codes on behalf of the Performance Optimisation and Productivity (POP) Centre of Excellence. The set of hierarchical metrics forming the POP performance assessment methodology cuts out the time-consuming trial and error process of code optimisation by identifying issues such as memory bottlenecks, communication inefficiencies, and load imbalances. He demonstrated with the example of optimised engineering codes how POP services could enable any EU or UK academic or commercial organisation to speed up time to solution, solve larger, more challenging problems or reduce compute costs free of charge.
On Wednesday the 27th, presentations continued with Christian Gscheidle representing EXCELLERAT and A Flexible and Efficient In-situ Data Analysis Framework for CFD Simulations. Because Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations Increasingly produce far more data than they can save in real time, researchers often see final analysis results and lose the intermediate data. It also means that they must wait until the full simulation runs before being able to make any improvements. In contrast, he presented the EXCELLERAT tool that uses machine learning to perform in-situ analyses on data produced during large-scale simulations in real time so that researchers can see intermediate results and early trends. Using this tool, an example HVAC duct from an automotive set up use case showed a reduced compute time because researchers were able to abort simulations with unwanted behaviour.
Wrapping up the presentations, Janik Schüssler presented Creating Connections: Enabling High Performance Computing for Industry through a Data Exchange & Workflow Platform on behalf of EXCELLERAT. Continuing in the theme of the previous presentations, this tool addresses the needs and competencies of current and potential HPC users, albeit in a slightly different way. As discussed in the talk, where other tools or trainings work to develop HPC competencies in the user, this prototype platform would bring HPC to the user both in terms of competencies and location. The user would be able to remotely access clusters (currently both HLRS Hawk and Vulcan) from anywhere using an authorised device. Additionally, they would be able to run simulations in the web front end without any command line interactions, which can have a steep learning curve for new users. Ultimately, the savings in logistical coordination, travel, and training time would drastically lower the entry barrier to HPC use.
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POP and PerMed Centers of Excellence are Getting Cell-Level Simulations Ready for Exascale
Success story # Highlights:
- Industry sector: Computational biology
- Key codes used: PhysiCell
- Keywords:
- Memory management
- Cell-cell interaction simulation
- OpenMP
- Good practice
Organisations & Codes Involved:
Technical Challenge:
One of PerMedCoE’s use cases is the study of tumour evolution based on single-cell omics and imaging using PhysiCell. In order to simulate such large-scale problems that replicate real-world tumours, High Performance Computing (HPC) is essential. However, memory usage presents a challenge in HPC architectures and is one of the obstacles to optimizing simulations for running at Exascale.
With a high number of threads computing in parallel, performance can be degraded because of concurrent memory allocations and deallocations. We observe that as the number of threads goes up, runtime is not reduced as expected. This is not a memory-bound problem, but a memory management one.
Solution:
Following the POP methodology and using the BSC tools (Extrae, Paraver, and BasicAnalysis), we determine that an overloading of a specific implementation of C++ operators is causing a high number of concurrent memory allocations and deallocations, causing the memory management library to perform synchronization and “steal” cycles of CPU from the running application.
The proposal from POP is to avoid the overloading of operators that need allocation and deallocation of data structures. However, achieving this implies a major code change. To demonstrate the potential of the suggestion without doing the major code change, we suggest using an external library to improve the memory management: Jemalloc.
Jemalloc is “a general purpose malloc implementation that emphasizes fragmentation avoidance and scalable concurrency support” [1]. It can be integrated easily into any code by preloading the library, with LD_PRELOAD in Linux for example. After applying this solution to PhysiCell, we execute the same experiment and obtain a 1.45x speed up when using 48 OpenMP threads.
[1] cited from Jemalloc website. http://jemalloc.net
Business impact:
As the only transversal CoE, one of POP’s objectives is to advise and help the other HPC CoEs prepare their codes for the Exascale. This collaboration between POP and PerMed is a good example of the potential of these kinds of partnerships between CoEs.
POP provides the performance analysis expertise and tools, the experience of hundreds of codes analysed, and the best practices gathered from those analyses. PerMedCoE bring state of the art use cases and real-world problems to be solved. Together, they improve the performance and efficiency of cell-level agent-based simulation software: in this case PhysiCell.
One of the goals of PerMedCoE is the scaling-up of four different tools that address different types of simulations in personalized medicine and that were coded in different languages (C++, R, python, julia). These tools are being re-factored to scale up to Exascale. In this scaling-up, audits such as the ones POP can offer are essential to evaluate past developments and guide future ones.
Currently, only one of PerMed’s tools is able to use several nodes to run a single simulation, whereas the rest of the tools can only use all of the processors of a single node. Our scaling-up strategy is a heterogeneous one. We are implementing MPI on some tools, re-factoring others to other languages that can ease the use of HPC clusters such as Julia, or even targeting “many-task computing“ paradigms like in the case of model fitting.
The main motivation to have HPC versions of these simulation tools is to be able to simulate bigger, more complex cell-level agent-based models. Current models can obtain up to 10^6 cells, but it has been proven that most of the problems addressed in computational biology (cancerogenesis, cell lines growth, COVID-19 infection) usually target from 10^9 to 10^12 cells. In addition, most of these current simulations consider an over-simplified environment that is nowhere close to a real-life scenario. We aim to have complex multi-scale simulation frameworks that target these bigger, more complex simulations.
Benefits:
- Speedup of 1.45x on runtime with 48 threads in PhysiCell execution
- A good practice for High Performance C++ applications exported
- This behaviour in memory management systems will be detected more easily in future analysis
CoEs at Teratec Forum 2021 and ISC21
With the support of FocusCoE, a number of HPC CoEs will give short presentations at the virtual PRACE booth in the following two HPC-related events: Teratec Forum 2021 and ISC2021 that will take place towards the end of this month. See the schedule below for more details. Please reserve the slots in your calendars, registration details will be provided on the PRACE website soon!
“We are happy to see that FocusCoE was able to help the HPC CoEs to have a significant presence at this year’s editions of ISC and Teratec Forum, two major HPC events, enabled through our good synergies with PRACE”, says Guy Lonsdale, FocusCoE coordinator.
Teratec Forum 2021 schedule
Date / Event | Time slot CEST | Title | Speaker | Organisation |
Tue 22 June | 11:00 – 11:15 | EoCoE-II: Towards exascale for Energy | Edouard Audit, EoCoE-II coordinator | CEA (France) |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | POP CoE: Free Performance Assessments for the HPC Community | Bernd Mohr | Jülich Supercomputing Centre |
Thu 24 June | 13:45 – 14:00 | EXCELLERAT – paving the way for the evolution towards Exascale | Amgad Dessoky / Sophia Honisch | HLRS |
ISC 2021 schedule
Date / Event | Time slot CEST | Title | Speaker | Organisation |
Thu 24 June | 13:45 – 14:00 | EXCELLERAT – paving the way for the evolution towards Exascale | Amgad Dessoky / Sophia Honisch | HLRS |
Fri 25 June | 11:00 – 11:15 | The Center of Excellence for Exascale in Solid Earth (ChEESE) | Alice-Agnes Gabriel | Geophysik, University of Munich |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | EoCoE-II: Towards exascale for Energy | Edouard Audit, EoCoE-II coordinator | CEA (France) |
Tue 29 June | 11:00 – 11:15 | Towards a maximum utilization of synergies of HPC Competences in Europe | Bastian Koller, HLRS | HLRS |
Wed 30 June | 10:45 -11:00 | CoE | Dr.-Ing. Andreas Lintermann | Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH |
Thu 1 July | 11:00 -11:15 | POP CoE: Free Performance Assessments for the HPC Community | Bernd Mohr | Jülich Supercomputing Centre |
| 14:30 -14:45 | TREX: an innovative view of HPC usage applied to Quantum Monte Carlo simulations | Anthony Scemama (1), William Jalby (2), Cedric Valensi (2), Pablo de Oliveira Castro (2) | (1) Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques, CNRS-Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France (2) Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Université Paris Saclay, France |
Please register to the short presentations through the PRACE event pages here:
| PRACE Virtual booth at Teratec Forum 2021 | PRACE Virtual booth at ISC2021 |
| prace-ri.eu/event/teratec-forum-2021/ | prace-ri.eu/event/praceisc-2021/ |
List of innovations by the CoEs, spotted by the EU innovation radar
| Title: Biobb, biomolecular modelling building Blocks |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: BioExcel |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER – UNITED KINGDOM |
| BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER – CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION – SPAIN |
| FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA BIOMEDICA (IRB BARCELONA) – SPAIN |
| Title: GROMACS, a versatile package to perform molecular dynamics |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: BioExcel |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN – SWEDEN |
| Title: HADDOCK, a versatile information-driven flexible docking approach for the modelling of biomolecular complexes |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: BioExcel |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT – NETHERLANDS |
| Title: PMX, a versatile (bio-) molecular structure manipulation package |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: BioExcel |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV – GERMANY |
| Title: Faster Than Real Time (FTRT) environment for high-resolution simulations of earthquake generated tsunamis |
| Market maturity: Tech ready |
| Market creation potential: High |
| Project: ChEESE |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| UNIVERSIDAD DE MALAGA – SPAIN |
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN – GERMANY |
| ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA – ITALY |
| Title: Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment (PSHA) |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: ChEESE |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN – GERMANY |
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN – GERMANY |
| ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA – ITALY |
| Title: Urgent Computing services for the impact assessment in the immediate aftermath of an earthquake |
| Market maturity: Tech Ready |
| Market creation potential: High |
| Project: ChEESE |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH – SWITZERLAND |
| BULL SAS – FRANCE |
| Title: Alya, HemeLB, HemoCell, OpenBF, Palabos-Vertebroplasty simulator, Palabos – Flow Diverter Simulator, BAC, HTMD, Playmolecule, Virtual Assay, CT2S, Insigneo Bone Tissue Suit |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: CompBioMed |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER – CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION – SPAIN |
| UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON – UNITED KINGDOM |
| ACELLERA LABS SL – SPAIN |
| Title: E-CAM software repository |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: E-CAM |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE – SWITZERLAND |
| UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN – IRELAND |
| UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION – UNITED KINGDOM |
| Title: E-CAM Training offer on effective use of HPC simulations in quantum chemistry |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: E-CAM |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE – SWITZERLAND |
| UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN – IRELAND |
| FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN – GERMANY |
| Title: Improved Simulation Software Packages for Molecular Dynamics |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: E-CAM |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL – UNITED KINGDOM |
| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN – AUSTRIA |
| UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM – NETHERLANDS |
| Title: Improved software modules for Meso– and multi–scale modelling |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: E-CAM |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV – GERMANY |
| FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN – GERMANY |
| Title: Code auditing, optimization and performance assessment services for energy-oriented HPC simulations |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: EoCoE |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV – GERMANY |
| FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. – GERMANY |
| Title: Consultancy Services for using HPC Simulations for Energy related applications |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: EoCoE |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES – FRANCE |
| FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. – GERMANY |
| Table: New coupled earth system model |
| Market maturity: Tech Ready |
| Project: ESiWACE |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| BULL SAS – FRANCE |
| MET OFFICE – UNITED KINGDOM |
| EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS – UNITED KINGDOM |
| Title:AMR capability and Accelerated Computing in AVBP code |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: EXCELLERAT |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH – UNITED KINGDOM |
| BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER – CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION – SPAIN |
| CERFACS CENTRE EUROPEEN DE RECHERCHE ET DE FORMATION AVANCEE EN CALCUL SCIENTIFIQUE SOCIETE CIVILE – FRANCE |
| Title: AMR capability in Alya code to enable advanced simulation services for engineering |
| Market maturity: Tech Ready |
| Project: Excellerat |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH – UNITED KINGDOM |
| KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN – SWEDEN |
| BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER – CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION – SPAIN |
| Title: Data Exchange & Workflow Portal: secure, fast and traceable online data transfer between data generators and HPC centers |
| Market maturity: Tech Ready |
| Market creation potential: High |
| Project: Excellerat |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER – CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION – SPAIN |
| Title: FPGA Acceleration for Exascale Applications based on ALYA and AVBP codes |
| Market maturity: Tech Ready |
| Market creation potential: Noteworthy |
| Project: Excellerat |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH – UNITED KINGDOM |
| KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN – SWEDEN |
| BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER – CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION – SPAIN |
| Title: Open source mode decomposition toolkit for exascale data analysis |
| Market maturity: Tech Ready |
| Project: Excellerat |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN – GERMANY |
| BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER – CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION – SPAIN |
| SSC SERVICES GMBH – GERMANY |
| Title:Use of GASPI to improve performance of CODA |
| Market maturity: Tech Ready |
| Project: Excellerat |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH – UNITED KINGDOM |
| BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER – CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION – SPAIN |
| Title: GPU acceleration in TPLS to exploit the GPU-based architectures for Exascale |
| Market maturity: Tech Ready |
| Project: Excellerat |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH – UNITED KINGDOM |
| KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN – SWEDEN |
| Title: In-Situ Analysis of CFD Simulations |
| Market maturity: Tech Ready |
| Market creation potential: High |
| Project: Excellerat |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN – SWEDEN |
| FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. – GERMAN |
| Title: Interactive in situ visualization in VR |
| Market maturity: Tech Ready |
| Market creation potential: High |
| Project: Excellerat |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART – GERMANY |
| Title: Machine Learning Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Data |
| Market maturity: Tech Ready |
| Market creation potential: Noteworthy |
| Project: Excellerat |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN – SWEDEN |
| FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. – GERMAN |
| Title: Parallel I/O in TPLS using PETSc library |
| Market maturity: Tech Ready |
| Project: Excellerat |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH – UNITED KINGDOM |
| RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN – GERMANY |
| KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN – SWEDEN |
| Title: Highly scalable Material Science Simulation Codes |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: MaX |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER – CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION – SPAIN |
| E4 COMPUTER ENGINEERING SPA – ITALY |
| Title: Quantum Simulation as a Service |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Market creation potential: Noteworthy |
| Project: MaX |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH – SWITZERLAND |
| CINECA CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO – ITALY |
| Title: Simulation Code Optimisation and Scaling |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: MaX |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER – CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION – SPAIN |
| EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH – SWITZERLAND |
| Title: Novel Materials Discovery (NOMAD) Repository |
| Market maturity: Business Ready |
| Project: NoMaD |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV – GERMANY |
| HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN – GERMANY |
| BAYERISCHE AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN – GERMANY |
| Title: NOMAD Encyclopedia Service: allows users to see, compare, explore, and understand computed materials data |
| Market maturity: Tech Ready |
| Project: NoMaD |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER – CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION – SPAIN |
| MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV – GERMANY |
| HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN – GERMANY |
| Title: An ICT platform prototype for systematically tracing public sentiment, its evolution towards a policy, its components and arguments linked to them. |
| Market maturity: Tech Ready |
| Project: NOMAD |
| Innovation Topic: Smart & Sustainable Society |
| ATHENS TECHNOLOGY CENTER ANONYMI BIOMICHANIKI EMPORIKI KAI TECHNIKI ETAIREIA EFARMOGON YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS – GREECE |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH “DEMOKRITOS” – GREECE |
| CRITICAL PUBLICS LTD – UNITED KINGDOM |
| Title: Customer-Specific Performance Analysis for Parallel Codes |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: POP |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER – CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION – SPAIN |
| UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART – GERMANY |
| Title: Repository of powerful tools (codes, pattern/best-practice descriptions, experimental results) for the HPC community |
| Market maturity: Exploring |
| Project: POP |
| Innovation Topic: Excellent Science |
| BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER – CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION – SPAIN |
| TERATEC – FRANCE |
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Video of the Week: POPCast #4: Why Does Code Matter?
POP Webinar: PyPOP - An Interactive Tool for Performance Assessment
This live webinar gave an overview of the NAG PyPOP tool and how it can be used to streamline the process of application performance analysis.
Phil Tooley demonstrated the PyPOP analysis workflow, showed how the PyPOP wizard can be used to quickly calculate the POP metrics from captured profiling data and generate a performance report.
EXCELLERAT, MaX and POP at the International CAE Conference 2020
The three HPC centres of excellence EXCELLERAT, POP and MaX participated in the 36th edition of the International CAE conference 2020, that was held online from 30th November until 3rd December 2020.
Under the topic “At the epicentre of the digital transformation of industry”, high-performance computing is a key enabler for this digital transformation and it was presented at a dedicated collateral event on Wednesday, December 2nd at 14:00h CET.
In this session, the technical director of EXCELLERAT Amgad Dessoky presented a session titled “EXCELLERAT: paving the way for the evolution towards Exascale”. The EXCELLERAT activity brings together European experts to establish a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Engineering Applications on HPC with a broad service portfolio, paving the way for the evolution towards Exascale. The aim is to solve highly complex and costly engineering problems, and create enhanced technological solutions even at the development stage.
In the exhibition, MaX and EXCELLERAT had a joint virtual booth together to show their latest results. The virtual format made it possible to interact with both CoEs via video and chat. The booth was visible for three months after the event.
POP CoE was also present at the event with a virtual booth to exhibit its latest research results.
