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Other initiatives

IESP http://www.exascale.org

Community of researchers in HPC software is convinced that there is no way for a single continent alone (America, Europe or Asia) to design and develop all the software needed for these computers. In USA, the Department Of Energy (Office of Science), National Science Foundation, have launched at the end of 2008 the International Exascale Software Project (IESP) and have invited the international community, mainly US, Europe and Japan, to work together for providing the necessary tools, software and methods for new generation of HPC applications. The IESP initiative executive committee is composed of 9 members (three from USA, five from Europe, one from Japan) who are presently the following: 

  • Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US
  • Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory, US
  • Franck Cappello, INRIA, FR
  • Thomas Lippert, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, DE
  • Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, JP
  • Paul Messina, Argonne National Laboratory, US
  • Patrick Aerts, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research(NWO) NL
  • Anne Trefethen, Oxford, UK
  • Mateo Valero, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), Spain

More here:

“The International Exascale Software Project: A Call to Cooperative Action by the Global High Performance Community,” Dongarra, J., Beckman, P., Aerts, P., Cappello, F., Lippert, T., Matsuoka, S., Messina, P., Moore, T., Stevens, R., Trefethen, A., Valero, M. Volume 23, Number 4, Winter 2009, International Journal of High Performance Computer Applications, pp 309-322, ISSN 1094-3420.
"The International Exascale Software Project Roadmap," Dongarra, J., Beckman, P. et al., University of Tennessee EECS Technical Report, UT-CS-10-654, May 30, 2010.

 

PRACE (http://www.prace-project.eu/)

Although Europe never stands as a leader on the hardware side, it has a long tradition of software development excellence thanks to strong competencies in applied mathematics, modelisation and computer science.
Recently the European Commission in coordination with most European HPC actors launched the PRACE project as a major initiative. The PRACE, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, is a very ambitious undertaking that aims at building a world-class pan-European High Performance Computing (HPC) Service, and at making it available to leading scientific and engineering users in Europe. This needs to be done in a fast evolving context, with a fierce competition among key countries including the USA, Japan, China, India and Russia.
The service will comprise three to six superior HPC centres strengthened by regional and national supercomputing centres working in tight collaboration through grid technologies. In other words, the partnership will become a unique Research Infrastructure (RI) of the pan-European HPC ecosystem, trough the creation of a single legal entity.
The present members of PRACE represent the countries Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Ireland, Turkey, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Serbia, as new members of PRACE, will join this project.

 

PlanetHPC: http://www.planethpc.eu/

It is a Support Action funded under ICT Call 4 through the Computing Systems theme. It started on 1st November 2009 and runs for two years. Its aim is to create research and development roadmaps for the future of High Performance Computing (HPC) in Europe at the Terascale. However, we expect that future developments in the Exascale arena will have direct benefits to these applications. We therefore believe that the aims of PlanetHPC and EESI which is to focus on Exascale are naturally aligned and complementary.
Building a network of HPC users and experts within PlanetHPC is expected to be an important strength and output of the project. In a first step, EESI consortium will help PlanetHPC to build its network. Later when EESI starts, the PlanetHPC network will actively contribute to task 2.1 “Investigation of existing HPC projects and initiatives worldwide”. Some members of the network will also directly participate and contribute through the eight working groups of EESI.