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HP2C Presented at the Hybrid Multicore Consortium

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

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HP2C: First 8 Projects Accepted

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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CSCS and HP2C Involved in Cray Exascale Research Initiative

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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