http://www.edf.com

The 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. Leader in the French electricity market, the Group also has solid positions in the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. In the electricity sector, it has the premier generation fleet and customer portfolio in Europe and operates in strategically targeted areas in the rest of the world. The Group is also the leading network operator in Europe, giving a sound business model, equally balanced between regulated activities and those open to competition. The vocation of EDF R&D is to contribute to improving performance among EDF Group operating units and to identify and prepare 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 like Areva for the “nuclear island”. With installed capacity of 63 GWe, and 58 standardized nuclear units, EDF boasts Europe’s largest nuclear fleet and 17% of the world nuclear capacity, enabling production of 428TWh without CO2. It is fully responsible for nuclear safety and for meeting all the stringent rules and controls imposed by external independent bodies to the nuclear industry. From the onset, EDF has chosen to develop a high level of competence in order to successfully manage this programme and make the most of an operational feedback currently exceeding 1200 reactor.years. This was one of the reasons for establishing strong in-house Engineering and R&D teams and has proved very useful to constantly stick to the highest degrees of safety while keeping costs under control and operational performance well within the best world standards. In this context, numerical simulation has been recognized from the beginning as an indispensable tool. It has been used for a long time in such important operational issues as optimising day-to-day production, or choosing the safest and most effective configurations for nuclear refuelling; but most of its advance towards higher levels of performance has been driven by the constant need to better explain complex physical phenomena behind maintenance issues, assess the impact of potential modifications or new vendor technology and anticipate changes in operating or regulatory conditions.

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http://www.genci.fr

GENCI is a company in charge of the coordination of principal French equipments in high performance computing. GENCI is an association of 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: o Promote the use of modelling, simulation and high performance computing in fundamental and industrial research o Promote the organisation of European high performance computing and participate to its actions o 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 o Perform all research required for developing and optimising the utilisation of computing equipment o Open the equipment it owns to all interested scientific communities, academic or industrial, national, European or international

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http://www.epsrc.ac.uk

EPSRC, is the main UK government agency for funding research and training in engineering and the physical sciences, investing more than £800 million a year in a broad range of subjects – from mathematics to materials science, and from information technology to structural engineering. EPSRC is the managing agent for three UK research councils fro the provision of National Supercomputing services and currently supports the HECToR service in partnership with BBSRC and NERC. EPSRC is the UK partner in the PRACE Initiative.

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

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JUELICH), 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.

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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. 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. MareNostrum is a 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. We also operate a shared memory system with 128 processors and 0.5 TeraByte of main memory. 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.

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http://www.nwo.nl/

The (Netherlands) National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF) is an independent foundation under the umbrella of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). NCF is responsible for the policy and funding for the high-end computing infrastructure in the Netherlands for the Science and Research domain, from supercomputers to Grids. NCF sets the national high-end einfrastructure agenda in close cooperation with research councils, high-performance computing centres, the national research network SURFnet and universities. NCF has a broad HPC-related expertise in policy development, system analysis, benchmarking, professional procurement processes and supercomputer market surveys.

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http://www.arttic.fr

Created in 1987, ARTTIC is a European provider of management services, especially in the area of large international collaborative R&D projects. ARTTIC is a set of companies based in France, Belgium Germany and Israel. ARTTIC is an SME with a total workforce of about 50 persons. The turnover of ARTTIC France for 2008 was of order 3 M€. ARTTIC provides specific and practical help with all aspects of international R&D projects.

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http://www.cineca.it

CINECA (Interuniversity Consortium established by law in 1969) is a private body. Its institutional mission is to support research conducted by the Italian scientific community through supercomputing and its applications. CINECA is a Consortium of 37 Italian Universities, the CNR - National Research Council, the OGS- National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics and the MIUR - Ministry of University and Research. The present supercomputing facility is based on integrated infrastructure of more than 15.000 processors. The state of the art HPC system is an IBM Power 6 supercomputer with 168 nodes, each with 32 cores and 128 GB of RAM memory. The interconnection network is based on DDR Infiniband technology and the storage accounts for 1.8 PTbytes of storage. The aggregate peak power is 100 TFlops. Besides that, CINECA runs a IBM Blue Gene P with 1024 CPU quad core and a power of 14 TFlops. The data centre of CINECA is equipped to provide business continuity technology. Besides the national scientific supercomputing facility CINECA manages and exploits the supercomputing facility of ENI, the Italian Energy company, which is an integrated facility of up to 10.000 processors. CINECA has a long experience in HPC code parallelisation and optimisation and in providing education and training in the different fields of parallel computing and computational sciences. CINECA plays an active role in various national and EC-funded R&D and infrastructure projects on different aspects of HPC and Grid computing. CINECA is member of the DEISA2 Execomm in DEISA and coordinates HPC-Europa2 and HPCWorld.

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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, Henri CALANDRA, senior expert in Seismic Depth Imaging and in HPC, Pascal DAUBOIN, IT & HPC, Upstream R&D Manager

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http://www.nag.co.uk

NAG is a UK not-for-profit numerical software development company founded nearly four decades ago that collaborates with world-leading researchers and practitioners in academia and industry. NAG provides high-quality computational software to tens of thousands of users, from Global 500 companies, major learning academies, the world’s leading supercomputing centres, numerous independent software vendors and many others. NAG also provides worldwide HPC Consulting and Services for academic, government and commercial organizations. NAG’s headquarters are in Oxford UK, where most of the technical team are based. NAG also has offices in Manchester, Chicago, Tokyo and Taipei. NAG is part of the UK’s national academic supercomputing service, HECToR. NAG provides the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) support service, giving users access to HPC consultants to help port, optimise and scale their application software for use on HECToR. NAG’s CSE service also includes a range of HPC training courses.

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http://www.teratec.eu/

Ter@tec is an association 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.). Ter@tec has the following goals: to participate in the emergence and setting up of joint collaborative R&D projects, to enable access to stateof- the-art processing facilities among the most powerful in the world and to ensure the development of the requisite skills and competences through training, seminars, conferences and lectures.

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http://isenes.enes.org

ENES, European Network for Earth System modelling, gathers about 40 institutions from more than 10 European countries and has been emphasizing the need for high-end computing resources at the European level for climate research. Since its initial launch in 2001, the ENES consortium has been emphasizing the need for high-end computing resources at the European level for climate research. The consortium has been strongly involved in the elaboration of the scientific case of the HPC-EUR project selected in the ESFRI roadmap, advocating the need to strongly enhance computing performance to increase model resolution to better represent climate change impacts, to account for the Earth system complexity and to run large ensemble of simulations to quantify climate change projections uncertainties. ENES is therefore very interested to help EESI better define the facility and software requirements in interaction with its scientific community, in order to ensure the best possible service to this community. ENES will perform it through the starting IS-ENES I3 FP7 project.

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http://www.cecam.org/

CECAM (FR) Centre Europeen de Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire is a European organization with headquarters in Lausanne/Switzerland devoted to the promotion of fundamental research on advanced computational methods and to their application to important problems in frontier areas of science and technology. As the acronym CECAM indicates, traditionally the focus of its activities has been on atomistic and molecular simulations, mainly in relation to the physics and chemistry of condensed matter. CECAM activities range from the organization of scientific workshops to that of specific tutorials at the graduate level on the use of especially relevant software, from brain-storming meetings on timely topics to collaborative research projects, and sponsoring of an interesting visitors program as well as of specialized courses in computational sciences also at the master level. In order to broaden the activities and disciplinary level, CECAM has started to broaden its structure to a multi-nodal organization, where CECAM nodes (at present operating nodes plus several candidate nodes which start operating next year) were founded in seven European countries.

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/

EBML- EBI European Bioinformatics Institute is at the forefront of innovation in life sciences research, technology development and transfer, and provides outstanding training and services to the scientific community in its member states. This publicly-funded non-profit institute is housed at five sites in Europe whose expertise covers the whole spectrum of molecular biology. The EBI has a long-standing mission to collect, organise and make available databases for biomolecular science. It makes available a collection of databases along with tools to search, download and analyse their content. These databases include DNA and protein sequences and structures, genome annotation, gene expression information, molecular interactions and pathways. Connected to these are linking and descriptive data resources such as protein motifs, ontologies and many others. In many of these efforts the EBI is a European node in global data-sharing agreements involving, for example, the USA and Japan.

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http://www.cerfacs.fr

CERFACS (FR) Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique (European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computing) is a research organization that aims to develop advanced methods for the numerical simulation and the algorithmic solution of large scientific and technological problems of interest for research as well as industry, and that requires access to the most powerful computers presently available. CERFACS hosts interdisciplinary teams, both for research and advanced training that are comprised of: physicists, applied mathematicians, numerical analysts, and software engineers. Approximately 120 people work at CERFACS, including more than 100 researchers and engineers, coming from 10 different countries. They work on specific projects in seven main research areas: parallel algorithms, code coupling, aerodynamics, combustion, climate and environment, data assimilation, and electromagnetism.

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

EPCC (UK) is the supercomputing centre at The University of Edinburgh. Established in 1990, the organisation is one of Europe’s largest and most successful supercomputing centres with a full-time staff of 75, most educated to postgraduate level, and with a large array of HPC systems including the 24,000 core, 200 Teraflop Cray XT4-based UK National HPC service. EPCC is a world-leader in High Performance Computing and works with a wide variety of academic, industrial and commercial partners. Projects focus on: HPC application design, development and re-engineering; HPC application performance optimisation; distributed computing consultancy and solutions (with a particular focus on Grid and Cloud computing); HPC facilities access; project management for software development; and data integration and data mining consultancy. It plays a leading role in many other projects including DEISA (where it has led the benchmarking and training activities, and manage the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative), HPC-Europa, BEinGRID and PRACE (where it has successfully led the Work Package Software for Petalop/s Systems for the past two years). In November 2009, EPCC established the PlanetHPC FP7 Support Action.

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http://www.ingv.it/

INGV (IT) Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia is a governmental research Institute created in 1999 by merging different large pre-existing research institutions: the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica (ING), the Osservatorio Vesuviano (OV), the Istituto Internazionale di Vulcanologia (IIV), the Istituto di Ricerca per il Rischio Sismico (IRRS) and the Istituto per la Geochimica dei Fluidi (IGF). INGV is the reference institution for the National Civil Protection Department for the monitoring of seismic areas and active volcanoes in Italy and leads the official programs for seismic and volcanic hazard assessment promoted by the Italian government. INGV is the most relevant Italian Public Research Institution in Earth Sciences, with a particular emphasis on geohazards, and it is the reference institution for the Italian Ministry of Education, Research and University on these fields. INGV is a leading institution for fundamental research on the physics of the Earth interior, the earthquake generation process and volcano dynamics (INGV was ranked number one institution in volcanology and number three in seismology, based on scientific publications during year 2005, in a worldwide enquiry by ISI Thomson). More recently, new programs were developed and focused to study climate changes and environmental science. INGV has a long-standing experience in project coordination at national and European level, including the most recent successful EPOS (European Plate Observing System) proposal to update the European Roadmap for Research Infrastructures released by ESFRI (European Forum for Research Infrastructures). INGV has been partner or coordinator of several EC and international projects such as EXPLORIS, NERIES, SAFER, SESAME, SPICE, MEREDIAN, TRANSFER, GEOSTAR, NEAREST, QUEST, SHARE, etc.

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http://www.csc.fi

CSC (FI) - IT Center for Science, provides modelling, computing and information services for academia, research institutes, public sector and industry. CSC has also wide activities in data management and maintains Funet, the Finnish University and Research Network, enabling fast connections between researchers. CSC has a wide selection of scientific software and databases and runs the most powerful supercomputers. CSC is a limited company with non-profit model. The shares are fully owned by Finnish state, and governed by the Finnish Ministry of Education. CSC is the largest national center in Northern Europe with a staff exceeding 180 (2009).

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http://www.cea.fr/

CEA (FR), Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique The French nuclear energy authority, or Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) is a major player in research, development and innovation, and a contributor to three key sectors: energy, information and healthcare technologies, and defence and security. CEA is deeply involved in High Performance Computing, both as an end user in scientific domains calling for petascale computing, and as the operator of a large supercomputing complex at Bruyères-le-Châtel near Paris for defence, research and also industry applications of numerical simulation.

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http://www.cnrs.fr/

CNRS (FR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique is as a research organisation active in all areas of scientific and technological research. CNRS operates the IDRIS supercomputing centre, has expertise in HPC service provisioning to all research areas in France. CNRS's annual budget represents a quarter of French public spending on civilian research.CNRS operates the IDRIS supercomputing centre, has expertise in HPC service provisioning to all research areas in France.

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http://www.inria.fr/

INRIA (FR), Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique the French Institute for research in computer science and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry, 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 3 800 (2 800 of whom are scientists from INRIA and its partner organizations). As its strategy closely combines scientific excellence with technology transfer, it develops collaborations with the economic world through strategic industrial partners and by creating some 90 companies since 1984.

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http://www.cmcc.it/

CMCC (IT), Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change, is the Italian research centre on climate science and policy. CMCC activities focus on the development and applications of models of climate dynamics, impacts of climate change and adaptation and mitigation policies.

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

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY (UK), the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh is an expanding department with currently over 54 academic staff, 10 postdoctoral researchers and 66 research students. 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.

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http://www.scitech.ac.uk/

STFC (UK) Science and Technology Facilities Council 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. The Computational Science and Engineering Department (CSED) is based principally at STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory. The Numerical Analysis and Software Engineering Groups of CSED are located at STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire. CSED currently has some 80 staff developing first principles, molecular dynamics, meso-scale and continuum codes addressing engineering and physical science, life-science and environmental areas. These applications are supported by HPC, numerical analysis, novel architecture and software engineering R&D activities and HPC service provision. CSED is developing the Hartree Centre which will bring together academic, government and industry communities and focus on multi-disciplinary, multi-scale, efficient and effective computation. The goal is to provide a step-change in modelling capabilities for strategic themes including energy, life sciences, the environment and materials.

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