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Archive for the ‘HP2C’ Category
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
(Cross posting from ETH Life)
The Swiss platform for High-Performance and High-Productivity Computing (HP2C) is the world’s first and only project with the aim of developing optimized scientific simulations for high-performance computers. Seismologists from ETH Zurich are also involved, namely in the «Petaquake» project.
What is the exact structure of the Earth’s interior? What are the processes that take place there? Where and how do earthquakes originate? These are some of the central questions concerning our planet that we have not yet been able to answer with certainty. A view into the Earth’s interior similar to computed tomography for a human being could provide these answers, thus helping to improve seismic risk maps. This would be an important basis for assessing the risk of the locations of nuclear power plants or hospitals in Switzerland for example.
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
The High Performance and High Productivity Computing Platform (HP2C) invites the submission of proposals focused on applications of high performance computing to risk analysis for global challenges.
These projects should focus on advances in mathematical methods, algorithms and computational techniques to better exploit next generation supercomputing platforms for the analysis and forecast of global challenges, including climate change, regional weather prediction, natural hazards, but also social challenges like major disruptions in financial markets. Given the short duration and the limitation of budget, projects are expected to focus on methodological development and testing to prove the feasibility and impact of the new methods proposed. Projects focused merely on methods and algorithms for current low-end computer platforms will not be supported.
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
Prof. Thomas Schulthess presented the HP2C initiative at the First Workshop of the Hybrid Multicore Consortium in San Francisco (January, January 20, 2010).
Have a look to the different presentations of the consortium members and in particular to the presentation of HP2C by Schulthess.
As stated in the presentation, the overarching goal of HP2C is to:
Prepare computational sciences to make effective use of next generation supercomputers
And the specific goal is to:
Emerge with several high-impact scientific applications that scale and run efficiently on leadership computing platforms in 2012/13 timeframe
Tags: CSCS, ETH Zurich, Hybrid Multicore Consortium, Schulthess
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
The first 8 projects to be supported by HP2C have been accepted. A decision about 4 additional projects is expected in the next weeks.
In December 2009, the steering committee of HP2C selected the following 8 projects to be supported:
- Advanced Gyrokinetic – Advanced gyrokinetic numerical simulations of turbulence in fusion plasmas; Prof. Laurent Villard, EPF Lausanne
- CP2K – New Frontiers in ab initio Molecular Dynamics; Prof. Dr. Juerg Hutter, Uni Zürich
- Computational Cosmology Computational Cosmology on the Petascale; Prof. Dr. George Lake, Uni Zürich
- Selectome – Selectome, looking for Darwinian evolution in the tree of life; Prof. Dr. Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Uni Lausanne
- Cardiovascular System – HPC for Cardiovascular System Simulations; Prof. Alfio Quarteroni, EPFL
- MAQUIS – Modern Algorithms for Quantum Interacting Systems; Prof. Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva
- PETAQUAKE – Large-Scale Parallel Nonlinear Optimization for High Resolution 3D-Seismic Imaging; Dr. Olaf Schenk, Uni Basel
- Stellar Explosions – Productive 3D Models of Stellar Explosions; Dr. Matthias Liebendörfer, Uni Basel
A decision about 4 additional projects is expected in the next weeks.
For additional information about HP2C and its projects see »
Tags: CSCS, HP2C, HPCN
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Cray has announced the Exascale Research Initiative less than a month after Intel said it was setting up an exascale research center with European partners. Cray’s partnership involves three European institutions, including the University of Edinburgh and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center.
The goal of the initiative is to build a supercomputer capable of performing an exaflop, a quintillion calculations per second, by the end of the decade. The research teams will collaborate with Cray’s European software partners. Cray has made an undisclosed investment in the University of Edinburgh’s new Exascale Technology Center, which is scheduled to be formally launched this month. The Swiss researchers are working with Cray as part of the HP2C program, which is studying future large-scale simulation applications.
Cray press release »
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