http://www.total.com/

TOTAL group is the fifth largest publicly-traded integrated oil and gas company in the world and a major actor in the chemicals business, Total has operations in more than 130 countries on five continents with approximately 97,000 employees, and 2008 sales at €179.9 billion. The Company has strong R&D programs and challenges, in particular in the domain of the Earth Science for Oil & Gas Industry (Seismic, Reservoir Modeling, …). HPC, future Exaflops machines and applications, are among the most important challenges. TOTAL is largely involved in HPC developments and applications and is a strong demonstrator in testing and optimizing robust and scalable numerical software.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Philippe RICOUX, Corporate Scientific Division, Data processing and Modeling leader and Henri CALANDRA, senior expert in Seismic Depth Imaging and in HPC.

http://www.prace-ri.eu/

The mission of the PRACE Research Infrastructure (RI) is to enable high impact European scientific discovery and engineering research and development across all disciplines to enhance European competitiveness for the benefit of society. The PRACE RI seeks to realize this mission through the provision of access to world class high performance computing, data management, resources and services open to all European researchers through a peer review process. Through the broad participation of European governments and their representative organizations, a diversity of resources can be provided by the PRACE RI, including expertise throughout Europe in effectively usage of the available resources. PRACE has an extensive pan-European education and training effort devoted to help users as well as preparing the next generation of scientists and engineers.

The PRACE RI is established as an international non-profit association with seat in Brussels and is named ‘Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe AISBL’. It has 21 member countries whose representative organizations are creating a pan-European supercomputing infrastructure, delivering world-class services to the European research community with large-scale computing and storage resource, support and training needs.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Dr. Maria RAMALHO, as Managing Director of the PRACE RI Association.

http://www.lrz.de/

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, LRZ) is part of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, BADW). LRZ is a central site 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, like Max-Planck and Helmholtz Institutes. In 2012, LRZ will put into service the PRACE Tier-0 supercomputer “SuperMUC” with a peak performance of 3 Petaflop/s and more than 320 Terabytes of main memory. In addition to the SuperMUC system, LRZ is operating a number of general purpose and specialized clusters.

LRZ has more than 150 employees, about 30 of which are working in national or international research projects. LRZ participates in education and research and supports the adaptation of suitable algorithms to its supercomputer architectures. This is carried out in close collaboration with international centres and research institutions, especially with the Competence Network for Technical and Scientific High Performance Computing (KONWIHR). LRZ operates a powerful communication infrastructure called Munich Scientific Network (MWN) and is a competence centre for data communication networks. LRZ has a longstanding and internationally known expertise including research in security, network technologies, IT-Management, IT-operations, data archiving, high performance- and grid computing. LRZ is member of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), the alliance of the three national supercomputing centres in Germany (JSC-Jülich, HLRS Stuttgart, LRZ-Garching). The LRZ is also closely integrated in research in the field of High Performance Supercomputing through its own work groups and through collaboration with the Bavarian Competence Network for Technical and Scientific High Performance Computing “KONWIHR” as well as through the Munich Computational Sciences Centre “MCSC” – a collaboration of the Technical University of Munich (in particular LRR-TUM), the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, the Max-Planck Society and its High Performance Computing Centre (RZG), and the LRZ.

LRR TUM is linked to LRZ and described bellow.

LRR TUM carries out research in the field of parallel computer architectures and tools since 25 years as part of the Informatics department of TUM.

LRR TUM includes two professorships: Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode (also regular member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences) and Prof. Dr. Michael Gerndt. Recent activities of LRR TUM are: MMI the Munich Multicore Initiative (testing and implementing of new multi and manycore architectures and tools such as Autopin, Energy Efficiency and performance tools). Recently A. Bode conducted the Exascale Co-design Workshop at Dagstuhl, together with A. Hoisie , W. Nagel and Kranzlmüller).

Personnel involved in EESI :

Prof. Dr. Arndt Bode and Dr. Herbert Huber.

http://www.bsc.es/

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC), established in 2005, serves as the National Supercomputing Facility in Spain. The Centre hosts MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputer in Europe (94 TeraFlop/s system, based on PowerPC processors, running Linux, with 20 TeraByte of Memory and 280 TeraByte disk space. BSC operates a SL8500 with LTO-4 tape drives for an HSM and backup system with 6 PetaByte of storage capacity without compression)

The mission of the BSC-CNS is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. The BSC-CNS strives not only to become a first-class research centre in supercomputing, but also in scientific fields that demand high performance computing resources such as the Life and Earth Sciences. Following this approach, the BSC-CNS has brought together a critical mass of top-notch researchers, high performance computing experts and cutting-edge supercomputing technologies in order to foster multidisciplinary scientific collaboration and innovation. BSC-CNS coordinates the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) which has a total capacity of 136 TeraFlop/s, and includes seven supercomputer centres in Spain. Every year RES makes available a total of 130 million CPU hours for scientist.

UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) are linked to BSC and discribed bellow :

PC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

The High Performance Computing research group of the Computer Architecture Department at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) is the leading research group in Europe in topics related to high performance processor architectures, runtime support for parallel programming models and performance tuning applications for supercomputing. There is a signed Collaboration Agreement between the UPC and the BSC establishing the framework of the relationship between these two entities. According to this agreement, several professors of the UPC are made available to the BSC to work on projects.

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)

The objective of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) is to promote, coordinate, develop and disseminate the scientific and technology research of a multidisciplinary nature, with the aim of contributing to the pursuit of higher knowledge as well as economic, social and cultural development in Spain. It also promotes training of personnel and consultancy to public and private institutions.  CSIC researchers carry out their work at universities and research centers based in Spain with which CSIC actively collaborates.  This collaboration takes place within the framework of long-term agreements, ensuring that CSIC researchers are fully integrated into teams and research projects. CSIC has signed collaboration agreements with several entities, including the BSC.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Dr. Rosa Badía.

http://www.cea.fr/

CEA, French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, is a government-funded technological research organization. CEA is active in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies – and all necessary and related fundamental research. In each of these fields, the CEA maintains a cross-disciplinary culture of engineers and researchers, building on the synergies between fundamental and technological research. All these domains are intensive users of Petascale computing, and CEA is a major player in HPC in Europe, including expertise in the operation of large HPC centres.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Dr. Laurent CROUZET (CEA/DSM), Dr. Daniel Bouche, (CEA/DAM), Dr. Romain Teyssier, (CEA/DSM), Dr. Christophe Calvin, (CEA/DEN), Dr. Vincent Bergeaud, (CEA/DEN).

http://www.cnrs.fr/

The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research) is a governed-funded research organisation, under the administrative authority of France's Ministry of Research. CNRS research units are located throughout France, and employ a large body of tenured researchers, engineers and support staff. Laboratories are all on renewable four year contracts, with bi-evaluation. As the largest fundamental research organization in Europe, CNRS carried out research in all fields of knowledge, through its ten scientific institutes. CNRS encourages collaboration between specialists from different disciplines in particular with the university thus opening new fields of enquiry to meet social and economic needs. CNRS operates the IDRIS supercomputing centre, has expertise in HPC service provisioning to all research areas in France.

The research domains of CNRS involved in the EESI2 initiative will be mainly Earth sciences, with a focus on big data from seismic processing, numerical modelling and computer sciences. CNRS operates the IDRIS supercomputing centre, has expertise in HPC service provisioning to all research areas in France.

IPGP is linked to CNRS and described below:

The Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) is a research and educational institution (~500 researchers, engineers and administrative staff), associated to the CNRS-INSU (CNRS UMR 7154) and the PRES Paris Sorbonne Cité. Its mission is to achieve research and provide education in the fields of solid Earth sciences. The Institute is also charge of monitoring seismic and volcanic hazard in the French volcano observatories (Antilles, Reunion) and of the French global seismic network GEOSCOPE.

The Institute conducts research in all the fields (geophysics, geochemistry, quantitative geology…) of studies of the solid Earth sciences, and augment applications to societal concerns - natural hazards, energy resources, and environmental changes. IPGP plays a leading role in observation and monitoring systems, innovative data intensive methods and large-scale HPC simulation, imaging/inversion and assimilation methods.

IPGP has long been involved in the development of high performance parallel computing in Earth sciences initiated with the “Centre National de Calcul Parallèle des Sciences de la Terre” (CNCPST). Today, the “Service de Calcul Parallèle et de Traitement de Données” (S-CAPAD) is operating high performance computing and storage architectures in support of data and CPU intensive applications of the solid Earth community, and will be the main node of the European network.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Dr Sylvie Joussaume, Marie-Alice Foujols and Jean Pierre Vilotte.

http://www.genci.fr/

GENCI is an agency in charge of defining the French strategy in HPC for civil research. GENCI is a "société civile" with five partners: French Ministry of Research, CEA, CNRS, French universities represented by the CPU “Conférence des Présidents d’Universités” (with the Universities Computing Centre, CINES) and INRIA.

Created in January 2007, GENCI has had the following mission:

• Promote the use of modelling, simulation and high performance computing in fundamental and industrial research
• Promote the organisation of European high performance computing and participate to its actions, GENCI is the French representative into the PRACE AISBL research infrastructure
• Set in place and coordinating the major computer equipment for the French computer centers for civilian research, by providing for their financing and assuming their ownership
• Perform all research required for developing and optimising the utilisation of computing equipment
• Open the equipment it owns to all interested scientific communities, academic or industrial, national, European or international

Personnel involved in EESI :

Catherine Rivière, as President and CEO, Alain Lichnewsky, as CSO and Stéphane Requena, as CTO.

http://www.grs-sim.de/

The German Research School for Simulation Sciences (GRS) is a joint venture of Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University, combining the specific strengths of the two founders in the fields of science, engineering, and high-performance computing in a unique synergistic way. Located in dedicated modern facilities on the Aachen and Jülich campuses and equipped with privileged access to world-class computing and visualisation resources, the school is committed to research and education in the applications and methods of HPC-based computer simulation in science and engineering. As an essential element of its mission, the school provides a Master's and a doctoral program designed to train the next generation of computational scientists and engineers.

Affiliated with the computer science department of RWTH Aachen University, the Laboratory for Parallel Programming, one of the school's four research divisions, specialises in tools that support simulation scientists in exploiting parallelism at massive scales. One of its key projects is Scalasca, a scalable performance–analysis tool, which it develops in cooperation with the Jülich Supercomputing Centre. In EESI2, GRS will lead Task 4.2 “Scientific software engineering, software eco-system, and programmability”.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Prof. Dr. Felix Wolf, as header of the Laboratory for Parallel Programming and Prof. Dr. Paolo Carloni.

http://www.inria.fr/

Inria, the French Institute for research in computer science and control, is the only French public institute entirely dedicated to research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). Throughout its eight research centres, Inria has a workforce of 4 300 (3 400 of whom are scientists from Inria and its partner organizations). Inria has an annual budget of 250 million euros, 25% of which comes from its own research contracts and development products.

In its 2008-2012 Strategic Plan, Inria has defined seven scientific priorities: Modelling, simulation and optimisation of complex dynamic systems; Programming: security and reliability of computing systems; Communication, information, and ubiquitous computing; Interaction with real and virtual worlds ; Computational engineering; Computational sciences; Computational medicine.

As its strategy closely combines scientific excellence with technology transfer, it develops collaborations with the economic world through strategic industrial partners and about 100 companies have stemmed from Inria since 1984. Concerning the FP7, INRIA is involved in about 155 selected proposals including 85 in the ICT theme of the Cooperation Programme and 18 ERC grants. More information: http://www.inria.fr

Personnel involved in EESI :

Franck Cappello, as Senior Researcher in Computer science, HPC, Fault tolerance.

http://www.fz-juelich.de/

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JULICH), an institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich with 90 staff and 35 third-party funded members, provides supercomputer resources of the petaflop performance class, HPC tools, methods and know-how for the Forschungszentrum Jülich and on the national level for more than 200 German and European projects through the John von Neumann Institute for Computing. JUELICH operates the supercomputers and server systems as well as the campus-wide cluster computer networks and communication systems. In June 2009, the supercomputers offered by Jülich are a 200 Teraflop/s Intel-based called JuRoPA and a 72-rack IBM Blue Gene/P petaflop system called JUGENE. Besides the provision of leadership-class supercomputers JUELICH is focussing on technology development in cooperation with hardware industry and academic partners. Part of this activity is the exploration of opportunities provided by new architectures based on FPGA, Cell and GPU systems. A further important task of JUELICH is the user support and higher education. Support, both basic and in methods and optimization, is offered by experts in computer and computational sciences. Community-oriented support is provided by so-called Simulation Laboratories - research and support structures for specific scientific communities like plasma physics, material science, soft matter, biology etc. Cross disciplinary groups support the users in mathematical methods and performance analysis. Exa-scaling of applications and algorithms has become a major target of the activities of both simulation labs and cross-disciplinary groups. The newly funded German Research School for Simulation Sciences (GRS), a joint venture of Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University, offers programs for master and doctoral students. Studies include all subjects relevant for simulation on high-performance computers ranging from the disciplinary sciences like physics, chemistry, or biology, to the interdisciplinary fields of numerics and computer science.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Prof. Dr. Thomas Lippert, Dr.-Ing. Bernd Mohr and Godehard Sutmann.

https://www.surfsara.nl/nl/

SARA is the National Supercomputing and e-Science Support Center in the Netherlands. Among SARA's customers are all of the Dutch Universities, a number of large research, educational and government institutions, and the business community. The mission of SARA is to support research in the Netherlands by the development and provision of advanced ICT infrastructure, services and expertise.

SARA provides expertise and services in the areas of High Performance Computing, e-Science & Cloud Services, Data Services, Network support, and Visualisation.

SARA hosts the large national infrastructure services, i.e. the Dutch national Supercomputer service (IBM Power6 575-hydrocluster, 65 TF/s), the National Compute Cluster (Dell Infiniband cluster, >4500 Intel cores, 20 TF/s), large data storage facilities and services (online capacity over 5 PB, tape capacity over 20 PB) and all important national grid services (> 5000 cores). This includes also a large part of the BiG Grid infrastructure (the Dutch e-Science grid) that is a Tier-1 site for CERN LCG.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Dr. Axel Berg, as deputy director and manager Operations, Support and Development and Dr. Peter Michielse as deputy director and officer strategy, policies and international collaborations.

http://www.stfc.ac.uk/

The STFC is an independent, non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (DBIS). We are one of seven national Research Councils in the UK. We are a science-driven organisation, making it possible for a broad range of scientists to do the highest quality research tackling some of the most fundamental scientific questions. We do this by:

• funding researchers in universities directly through grants particularly in astronomy, particle physics, space science and nuclear physics.
• providing in the UK access to world-class facilities, including neutron sources, synchrotron sources, lasers and high-performance computing facilities.
• providing in the UK a broad range of scientific and technical expertise in space and ground-based astronomy technologies, microelectronics, wafer scale manufacturing, particle and nuclear physics, alternative energy production, radio communications and radar.
• providing access to world-class facilities overseas, including CERN, ESA, ESO, ESRF, ILL and telescopes.
• supporting training and societal and economic impact projects.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Dr Richard Blake as Director of the CSED, Dr M Ashworth as Associate Director of the Advanced Research Computing Group and Professor David Emerson.

http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Research/Micro/

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol was ranked fourth in the UK in the recent Complete University Guide. Funding for the department’s research comes from a variety of sources including national and European funding bodies and industrial partners, and its currently active research grant portfolio is valued at over £11m. The Microelectronics Research Group consists of 7 permanent staff, 5 research staff and 16 PhD students. Its main research theme is Energy Aware COmputing (EACO), covering all aspects of hardware and software design to radically improve system-level energy efficiency. The group contributed to the energy efficiency subtask of EESI1, helps run the Energy-Aware HPC conference, and is driving the new Energy Efficient HPC consortium (EEHPC.com) with ARM, Calxeda, the Mont Blanc FP7 project among other industrial and academic partners. The group’s role will be to lead Task 5.3, focusing on analysing the critical cross-cutting issue of power efficiency and how this can be addressed from a software point of view.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Simon McIntosh-Smith, as Header of Microelectronics Research.

http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/

The School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh is an expanding department with currently over 50 academic staff, 13 postdoctoral researchers and 65 research student. The School has research groups in Algebra and Number Theory, Analysis, Applied Mathematics, Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics, Probability and Stochastic Analysis, Statistics, and Operational Research. Of these the Operational Research, Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics groups have strong interests in High Performance Computing.

The research activities in mathematics of the School are grouped with those of Heriot-Watt University through the Maxwell Institute. The 80 or so research-active staff of the Institute make Edinburgh a highly active centre for research in mathematics, with numerous graduate courses, seminars, conferences and workshops, and a dynamic visitor programme. Close links with the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences further strengthen the research environment.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Andreas Grothey, Dr. Mark Parsons, Dr. Lorna Smith and Dr. Mark Bull.

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/

The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. In 2007/08, the University of Manchester had over 40,000 students studying 500 academic programmes and more than 10,000 staff, making it the largest single-site university in the United Kingdom. The University of Manchester had a total income of £787.9 million in 2009/10 (the third-highest of any university in the UK after Cambridge and Oxford), of which £194.6 million was from research grants and contracts. The University of Manchester has a long history and international reputation in High Performance Computing, having developed the first stored memory computer (1947); hosted several HPC facilities including the UK National HPC Service CSAR (1998-2006); run the UK Access Grid Support Centre (2006-2010) and partnered in the provision of the UK National Grid Service.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Dr. Lee Margetts, Dr Robin Pinning, as Service Manager, Dr Michael Bane, as Senior Consultant and Ms Mary McDerby, as Consultant.

http://www.unisalento.it

The Department of Innovation Engineering (DII) of the University of Salento consists of a permanent staff of about 100 researchers including engineers, physicists, chemists and mathematicians. About 55 people among technicians and administrative collaborate to the research activities and about 100 young researchers, as PhD students or with temporary contracts, collaborate with the permanent staff in carrying out the research activities connected with the different research contracts. The main objectives of the DII are to develop innovative technologies, and promote the research activities in the fields of: information engineering, industrial and mechanical engineering, chemistry and material engineering, nanotechnologies, physics and engineering of electronic devices, electrical engineering and automatics. Among the DII labs, the HPC lab, led by prof. G. Aloisio, carries out research and advanced training in the field of High Performance, Grid and Exascale computing. The HPC lab research activities are strongly connected to the “Scientific Computing and Operations” (SCO) Division of CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change).

Personnel involved in EESI :

Pr Giovanni Aloisio, Dr Sandro Fiore, Dr Italo Epicoco and Dr. Osvaldo Marra.

http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/

The French National Research Agency (ANR) is a research funding organisation. It was established by the French government in 2005 to fund research projects. The role of ANR is to bring more flexibility to the French research system, foster new dynamics and devise cutting edge-strategies for acquiring new knowledge. ANR identifies the priority areas and fosters private-public collaboration to enhance the general level of competitiveness of both the French research system and the French economy.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Jean Yves Berthou, head of ICT department and Nakita Vodjani, Head of European and International cooperation

http://www.msu.ru/

Moscow State University, the oldest and the largest university in Russia, was established in 1755 and counts 40 000 students, 2500 full doctors, 6000 PhDs, 1000 full professors, 40 faculties. Supercomputing center of MSU is one of the world-leading centers. It is based on a variety of multicore, GPU and FPGA systems where the major resource is the “Lomonosov” supercomputer (1.3 Pflops).

Personnel involved in EESI :

Vladimir Voevodin, deputy Director of the Research and Computing Facility and professor of computational mathematics and cybernetics.

http://www.caps-entreprise.com/

CAPS Entreprise (Manycore Programming Company) is a French company leader in providing software and solutions for HPC Community by combining parallel and heterogeneous cores, manycore processors offer a tremendous performance potential at a very low power.

Personnel involved in EESI :

François Bodin, Scientfic adviser.

http://www.dlr.de/

DLR is Germany's national research center for aeronautics and space. Its extensive research and development work in aeronautics, space, transportation and energy is integrated into national and international cooperative ventures. As Germany's Space Agency, DLR is responsible for the forward planning and implementation of the German space programme as well as international representation of Germany's interests. The technical acoustics branch has developed Computational AeroAcoustics (CAA) simulation codes.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Norbert Kroll, Head of Department German Aerospace Center Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology C²A²S²E Center for Computer Applications in AeroSpace Science and Engineering.

http://www.edf.com/

EDF Group is a leading player in the European energy industry, present in all areas of the electricity value chain, from generation to trading, and increasingly active in the gas chain in Europe. EDF R&D contributes to improving performance among EDF Group operating units and identifies and prepares new growth drivers for the medium and long terms. EDF background in numerical simulation is deeply rooted in its nuclear PWR programme launched in the early seventies, and in its particular responsibilities as an architect and owner-operator EDF does not buy turnkey plants but takes responsibility for the global design: it then specifies and assembles different parts provided by various vendors.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Alberto Pasanisi PhD in Water Sciences from the French National Engineering School for Rural Engineering, Water and Forest Ressources (ENGREF). He chairs two thematic groups about uncertainty analysis in two French scientific societies and he occasionally acts as reviewer or guest editor for scientific journals. Claire Waast, EDF R&D CTO

www.intel.com

INTEL is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. The European branch is particularly involved in HPC performance and applications efficiency.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Karl Solchenbach director for European Exascale labs

http://www.nag.co.uk/

NAG (Numerical Algorithms Group) NAG is a UK not-for-profit numerical software development company that collaborates with world-leading researchers and practitioners in academia and industry support and help to evolve supercomputing applications in use by the academic community.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Mike Dewar, Chief Technical Officer, Andrew Jones, Vice-President HPC Business.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pharmacy/

The School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham leads the UK in the training of future Pharmacists and in undertaking world changing research. Rated 1st in the UK Research Assessment Exercise for Pharmacy and in the top 2% of all university departments in any subject in the UK, we are recognised as a world leader for research in the design and use of drugs and medicines. Many of these activities involve significant HPC activity.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Dr Charlie Laughton is Associate Professor and Reader in Molecular Recognition. He works on development and application of HPC methods to the discovery and development of new drugs, particularly new anticancer agents. He was the founding chair of the Collaborative Computational Project for Biomolecular Simulation (CCPB).

http://www.teratec.eu/

Ter@tec is an initiative launched in France whose objective is to create an eco-system totally dedicated to High Performance Simulation and Computing and to become by 2010 the first European technopole in this field regrouping industrial companies (products and services) around public and private labs, a Training Institute close to a Very Large Supercomputing Center. Teratec is a non-profit organization grouping Industry users (TOTAL, EADS, EDF, Dassault, Schneider etc.), technology providers (HP, Bull, Microsoft, Ansys, Sun, Intel etc.) and Research centers (CEA, Inria, CNRS etc.)

Personnel involved in EESI :

Hervé Mouren.

http://www.uni-erlangen.de/

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is one of the largest universities in Germany. With its five faculties, FAU offers an almost unique scope of subjects ranging from the Humanities to Law and Economics as well as Sciences, Medicine and Engineering.  Over the last decades, the University has established its reputation as a top-ranking institution in cutting-edge research. It is firmly anchored in a close network of interdisciplinary co-operations. These include partners from industry, specialised non-university research centre and a number of leading international universities.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Ulrich Rude.

http://www.csc.fi

CSC the Finnish IT Center for Science, is a non-profit limited company owned by the Finnish state, and governed by the Finnish Ministry of Education. It is the largest national center in Northern Europe with a staff exceeding 220 (2011) providing modelling, computing and information services for academia, research institutes, the public sector and industry.

CSC is a multi-disciplinary e-Infrastructure provider supporting a European-wide customer base of thousands of researchers in disciplines such as biosciences, linguistics, chemistry and mathematical modelling. CSC is closely collaborating with Finnish ministries and other national funding agencies in development of e-Infrastructure competence. The Finnish University and Research Network (Funet) is maintained by CSC, where researchers can use the largest collection of scientific software and databases in Finland. CSC is also active in data management and coordinates EUDAT, a project which aims to provide Europe’s scientific and research communities with a sustainable pan-European infrastructure for improved access to scientific data.

CSC has extensive international e-infrastructure collaboration experience and represents Finland in key e-Infrastructure development projects such as EGI, PRACE, e-IRG and ELIXIR.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Per Öster.

http://tu-dresden.de/

The Technische Universität Dresden has its roots in the Royal Saxon Technical School that was founded in 1828. Today it is a university that unites the natural and engineering sciences with the humanities and social sciences, as well as medicine. This wide range of disciplines, which is unique in Germany, brings with it the obligation for the university to promote interdisciplinarity and to contribute to the integration of science and society.

The Technische Universität Dresden aims to establish a balance between professional and personal responsibilities and wishes to ensure equal opportunity in all its employment practices. The members of the Technische Universität Dresden maintain good relationships and confidence with one another in teaching, studies and research. In this environment, different life stories and career aspirations will be able to develop to their fullest. The Technische Universität Dresden fosters affinity with its alumni and supporters and invites them to stay involved in university activities.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Matthias Mueller

http://www.dkrz.de/

DKRZ: the German Climate Computing Centre provides the tools and associated services which are needed to investigate the processes in the climate system: Computer power, data management and guidance to use these tools efficiently. As a national service provider, DKRZ operates a supercomputer center to enable climate simulation and provides the scientific users with the technical infrastructure needed for processing and analysis of climate data. This also includes support for related application software, advice and support in data processing issues. Finally, DKRZ also participates in national and international joint projects with the aim of improving the infrastructure for climate modeling.

DKRZ thus constitutes an outstanding research infrastructure for model-based simulations of global climate change and its regional effects. This mission is consistent with the new High-Tech Strategy for climate protection as presented by Prof. Dr. Annette Schavan, Federal Minister for Education and Research, at the second Climate Research Summit in Berlin in October 2007.

Personnel involved in EESI :

Person involved: Thomas Ludwig.