Consortium

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.

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