Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique (CERFACS)
Profile: research organization to develop advanced methods for the numerical simulation and the algorithmic solution of large scientific and technological problems that requires access to supercomputers.
Contribution to HPC: parallel algorithms, code coupling, aerodynamics, combustion, climate and environment, data assimilation, and electromagnetism
EESI contacts:
Serge GRATON
CINECA
Profile: Private body created in 1969. Consortium of 37 Italian universities and more that operates several leading HPC datacentres. Member of key projects and DEISA. Coordonates HPC Europa2 and HPCWorld
Contribution to HPC: operates a supercomputing integrated infrastructure with 15000+ processors. 168 nodes, each with 32 cores and 128 GB of RAM, 1,8PTbytes storage. Peak power 100 Tflops. IBM Blue Gene P 1024 CPU quad core, 14 Tflops. It also operate the ENI supercomputer, 10 000 processors. Experience in HPC code parallelisation and optimisation
EESI contacts:
Giovanni ERBACCI
CSC
Profile: non-profit limited company owned by the Finnish state being the largest national centre in Northerne Europe in IT center for science. 220 people. operates the Finnish University and Research Network (Funet) with the largest collection of scientific software and databases.
Contribution to HPC: Coordinates EUDAT project to provide a sustainable pan European infrastructure for improved access to scientific data. Partner to key e-infrastructure development projects (eg PRACE)
EESI contacts:
Per OSTER
EDF
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:
Ange CARUSO
Alberto PASANISI
INTEL
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:
Marie-Christine SAWLEY