Friedrich Alexander Universität

Profile: one of the largest university in Germany. Scope from humanities to law, economics, sciences, medicine and engineering.

Contribution to HPC: anchored in a close network of interdisciplinary cooperations

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Ulrich RUDE

German Research School for Simulation Sciences

Profile: school committed to research and education in the applications and methods of HPC-based computer simulation in science and engineering. It provides a Master’s and a doctoral program for next generation of computational scientists and engineers.

Contribution to HPC: its Laboratory for Parallel Programming specialises in tools that support simulation scientists in exploiting parallelism at massive scales. Example: Scalasca, a scalable performance–analysis tool

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Felix WOLF

Moscow State University

Profile: a competence center for large scale data archiving and backup.
It has been an active player in the area of high performance computing for over 20 years and provides computing power on several different levels. It offers its services to universities in Germany and to publicly funded research institutions.

Contribution to HPC: since 2012 it operates the PRACE Tier-0 supercomputer “SuperMUC” system with a peak performance of 3 Petaflop/s and more than 320 Terabytes of main memory

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Vladimir VOEVODIL

The School of Mathematics

Profile: expanding department at the University of Edinburgh with 50 people, 13 post doc and 65students

Contribution to HPC: Operational research, applied mathematics and mathematical physics interest

EESI contacts:

Mark PARSONS
Mark BULL
Andreas GROTHEY

Technische Universität Dresden

Profile: a competence center for large scale data archiving and backup.
It has been an active player in the area of high performance computing for over 20 years and provides computing power on several different levels. It offers its services to universities in Germany and to publicly funded research institutions.

Contribution to HPC: since 2012 it operates the PRACE Tier-0 supercomputer “SuperMUC” system with a peak performance of 3 Petaflop/s and more than 320 Terabytes of main memory

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Matthias MÜLLER

The University of Manchester

Profile: a competence center for large scale data archiving and backup.
It has been an active player in the area of high performance computing for over 20 years and provides computing power on several different levels. It offers its services to universities in Germany and to publicly funded research institutions.

Contribution to HPC: since 2012 it operates the PRACE Tier-0 supercomputer “SuperMUC” system with a peak performance of 3 Petaflop/s and more than 320 Terabytes of main memory

EESI contacts:

Lee MARGETTS

Universita del Salento

Profile: a competence center for large scale data archiving and backup.
It has been an active player in the area of high performance computing for over 20 years and provides computing power on several different levels. It offers its services to universities in Germany and to publicly funded research institutions.

Contribution to HPC: since 2012 it operates the PRACE Tier-0 supercomputer “SuperMUC” system with a peak performance of 3 Petaflop/s and more than 320 Terabytes of main memory

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Giovanni ALOISIO

University of Bristol

Profile: UK 4th ranked department in Computer Science. Microelectronics research group working on Energy Aware Computing (EACO)

Contribution to HPC:  worked on energy efficiency subtask of EESI1, helped run the Energy-Aware HPC conference, and is driving the new Energy Efficient HPC consortium (EEHPC.com). Leading work on cross-cutting issue of power efficiency in EESI2.

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Simon MAC INTOSH-SMITH

University of Nottingham

Profile: School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham rated N°1 in Research Assessment Exercice for Pharmacy.

Contribution to HPC: Research in the design and use of drugs and medicines that requires significant HPC activity

EESI contacts:

Charlie LAUGHTON