Seven projects and infrastructure funded by European Union's Horizon 2020 programme have joined forces again to showcase their work at SC'19 in Denver. Visit us at booth 2215 to discover how we are helping to prepare Europe for the Exascale era.
Meet representatives of our projects on booth 2215 to know more about our work, and maybe meet new partners for your own projects…
Don’t miss our raffle! We’ll have exciting smart prizes to win, each day at 13:00. Be present on booth 2215 to win smartwatches, a tablet, an Amazon Echo, headphones…
Twitter: @ASPIDE_PROJECT
Extreme Data is an incarnation of Big Data concept distinguished by the massive amounts of data that must be queried, communicated and analysed in (near) real-time by using a very large number of memory/storage elements and Exascale computing systems. Immediate examples are the scientific data produced at a rate of hundreds of gigabits-per-second that must be stored, filtered and analysed, the millions of images per day that must be mined (analysed) in parallel, the one billion of social data posts queried in real-time on an in-memory components database. Traditional disks or commercial storage cannot handle nowadays the extreme scale of such application data.
Following the need of improvement of current concepts and technologies, ASPIDE’s activities focus on data-intensive applications running on systems composed of up to millions of computing elements (Exascale systems). Practical results will include the methodology and software prototypes that will be designed and used to implement Exascale applications.
The ASPIDE project will contribute with the definition of a new programming paradigms, APIs, runtime tools and methodologies for expressing data-intensive tasks on Exascale systems, which can pave the way for the exploitation of massive parallelism over a simplified model of the system architecture, promoting high performance and efficiency, and offering powerful operations and mechanisms for processing extreme data sources at high speed and/or real-time.
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania
University of Calabria, Italy
Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Servicio Madrileño de Salud, Spain
INTEGRIS SA Italy
Bull SAS (Atos Group), France
Twitter: @evolve_h2020
EVOLVE is a pan European Innovation Action with 19 key partners from 11 European countries introducing important elements of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud in Big Data platforms taking advantage of recent technological advancements to enable cost-effective applications in 7 different pilots to keep up with the unprecedented data growth we are experiencing.
EVOLVE aims to build a large-scale testbed by integrating technology from:
Therefore, one key differentiator of EVOLVE is the ambition to tackle heterogeneity: in the infrastructure itself, from data processing to data movement aspects, for workflow optimization. Heterogeneity is also addressed at the level of user needs with support of cloud and big data tools on HPC platform.
EVOLVE aims to take concrete and decisive steps in bringing together the Big Data, HPC, and Cloud worlds, and to increase the ability to extract value from massive and demanding datasets. EVOLVE aims to bring the following benefits for processing large and demanding datasets:
EVOLVE intends to build and demonstrate the proposed testbed with real-life, massive datasets from demanding applications areas. To realize this vision, EVOLVE brings together technologies and pilot partners from EU industry with demonstrated experience, established markets, and vested interest. Furthermore, EVOLVE will conduct a set of 10-15 Proof-of-Concepts with stakeholders from the Big Data value chain to build up digital ecosystems to achieve a broader market penetration.
Datadirect Networks France
AVL LIST GmbH, Austria
BMW – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, Germany
Bull SAS (Atos group), France
Cybeletech, France
Globaz S.A., Portugal
IBM Ireland Ltd, Ireland
Idryma Technologias Kai Erevnas, Greece
ICCS (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems), Greece
KOOLA d.o.o., Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kompetenzzentrum – Das Virtuelle Fahrzeug, Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria
MEMEX SRL, Italy
MEMOSCALE AS, Norway
NEUROCOM Luxembourg SA, Luxembourg
ONAPP Ltd, Gibraltar
Space Hellas SA, Greece
Thales Alenia Space France SAS, France
TIEMME SPA, Italy
WEBLYZARD Technology GmbH, Austria
Twitter: @ExaQUteEU
The ExaQUte project aims at constructing a framework to enable Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) and Optimization Under Uncertainties (OUU) in complex engineering problems using computational simulations on Exascale systems.
The stochastic problem of quantifying uncertainties will be tackled by using a Multi Level MonteCarlo (MLMC) approach that allows a high number of stochastic variables. New theoretical developments will be carried out to enable its combination with adaptive mesh refinement, considering both, octree-based and anisotropic mesh adaptation.
Gradient-based optimization techniques will be extended to consider uncertainties by developing methods to compute stochastic sensitivities. This requires new theoretical and computational developments. With a proper definition of risk measures and constraints, these methods allow high-performance robust designs, also maximizing the solution reliability.
The description of complex geometries will be possible by employing embedded methods, which guarantee a high robustness in the mesh generation and adaptation steps, while allowing preserving the exact geometry representation.
The efficient exploitation of Exascale system will be addressed by combining State-of-the-Art dynamic task-scheduling technologies with space-time accelerated solution methods, where parallelism is harvested both in space and time.
The methods and tools developed in ExaQUte will be applicable to many fields of science and technology. The chosen application focuses on wind engineering, a field of notable industrial interest for which currently no reliable solution exists. This will include the quantification of uncertainties in the response of civil engineering structures to the wind action, and the shape optimization taking into account uncertainties related to wind loading, structural shape and material behaviour.
All developments in ExaQUte will be open-source and will follow a modular approach, thus maximizing future impact.
CIMNE- Centre Internacional de Metodes Numerics en Enginyeria, Spain
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Technische Universität München, Germany
INRIA, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, France
Vysoka Skola Banska – Technicka Univerzita Ostrava, Czech Republic
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
str.ucture GmbH, Germany
The European supercomputing centres BSC (Spain), CEA (France), CINECA (Italy), ETHZ-CSCS (Switzerland) and JUELICH-JSC (Germany) have joined forces to design and build a federated data and computing infrastructure. The realization of the Fenix Research Infrastructure, which in the beginning will be used primarily by the Human Brain Project (HBP), started officially in January 2018 with the launch of the “Interactive Computing E-Infrastructure” (ICEI) project. ICEI/Fenix is co-funded by the European Commission through a Specific Grant Agreement (SGA) under the umbrella of the HBP Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA).
The five supercomputing centres—all of which are Hosting Members of PRACE—are creating a set of e-infrastructure services which serve the HBP and other communities as a basis for the development and operation of community-specific platform tools and services. To this end, the design and the implementation of the ICEI/Fenix infrastructure are driven by the needs of the HBP as well as other scientific communities with similar requirements (e.g., materials science). The key services provided by ICEI/Fenix encompass Interactive Computing, Scalable Computing and Virtual Machine services, as well as Active and Archival Data Repositories. The distinguishing characteristic of this e-infrastructure is that data repositories and scalable supercomputing systems are in close proximity and well integrated. First ICEI/Fenix infrastructure services are already available and used at ETHZ-CSCS. The deployment of ICEI/Fenix infrastructure components at the majority of the participating centres and the first demonstration of the key services are expected to start in early 2020. More infrastructure services are planned to be added, with all infrastructure services expected to be operational in early 2021.
The objectives of ICEI/Fenix can be summarized as follows:
Technical coordination: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (JUELICH), Germany
Administrative coordination: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain
Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), France
Cineca Consorzio Interuniversitario (CINECA), Italy
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zürich), Switzerland
Twitter: @LexisProject
Facebook: @LEXIS2020
LinkedIn: @lexis-project
The increasing quantities of data generated by modern industrial and business processes pose enormous challenges for organisations seeking to glean knowledge and understanding from the data. Combinations of HPC, Cloud and Big Data technologies are key to meet the increasingly diverse needs of large and small organisations alike. Critically, access to powerful compute platforms for SMEs – which has been difficult due to both technical and financial reasons – may now be possible.
LEXIS (Large-scale EXecution for Industry & Society) project will build an advanced engineering platform at the confluence of HPC, Cloud and Big Data which will leverage large-scale geographically-distributed resources from existing HPC infrastructure, employ Big Data analytic solutions and augment them with Cloud services. Driven by the requirements of the pilots, the LEXIS platform will build on best of breed data management solutions (EUDAT) and advanced, distributed orchestration solutions (TOSCA), augmenting them with new efficient hardware capabilities in the form of Data Nodes and federation, usage monitoring and accounting/billing supports to realise an innovative solution oriented to stimulate the interest of European industries and creating an ecosystem of organisations that could benefit from the implemented platform of LEXIS that sets up a connection between HPC, HPDA and Data Management.
The consortium will develop a demonstrator with a significant Open Source dimension including validation, test and documentation. It will be validated in the large-scale pilots – in the industrial and scientific sectors (Aeronautics, Earthquake and Tsunami, Weather and Climate) – where significant improvements in KPIs including job execution time and solution accuracy are anticipated. LEXIS will organise a specific call stimulating the project framework adoption and stakeholders’ engagement on the targeted pilots.
LEXIS will promote the solution to the HPC, Cloud and Big Data sectors maximising impact through targeted and qualified communication. LEXIS brings together a consortium with the skills and experience to deliver a complex multi-faceted project, spanning a range of complex technologies across seven European countries, including large industry, flagship HPC centres, industrial and scientific compute pilot users, technology providers and SMEs.
IT4Innovations, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czechia
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Germany
Atos BDS (Bull), France
Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Leibniz Rechenzentrum der BAdW, Germany
Bayncore Labs Ltd, Ireland
CEA, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives, France
CYCLOPS Labs GmbH, Switzerland
Centro Internazionale in Monitoraggio Ambientale – Fondazione CIMA, Italy
ECMWF, European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom
GE AVIO SRL, Italy
Helmholtz Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches Geoforschungs Zentrum GFZ, Germany
Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance Cooperation and Action, Italy
LINKS Foundation, Italy
NUMTECH SARL, France
OUTPOST24, France
Teseo Eiffage Energie Systèmes, Italy, Italy
Maestro will build a data-aware and memory-aware middleware framework that addresses ubiquitous problems of data movement in complex memory hierarchies and at many levels of the HPC software stack.
Though HPC and HPDA applications pose a broad variety of efficiency challenges, it would be fair to say that the performance of both has become dominated by data movement through the memory and storage systems, as opposed to floating point computational capability. Despite this shift, current software technologies remain severely limited in their ability to optimise data movement. The Maestro project addresses what it sees as the two major impediments of modern HPC software:
Maestro proposes a middleware framework that enables memory and data-awareness. Maestro has developed new data-aware abstractions that can be used in any level of software, e.g. compiler, runtime or application. A core element are the Core Data Objects (CDO), which are provided to the middleware through a give/take semantics. The middleware is being designed such that it enables modelling of memory and storage hierarchies to allow for reasoning about data movement and placement based on costs of moving data objects. The middleware will support automatic movement and promotion of data in memories and storage and allow for data transformations and optimisation.
Maestro follows a co-design methodology using a set of applications and workflows from diverse areas including numerical weather forecasting, earth-system modelling, materials sciences and in-situ data analysis pipelines for computational fluid dynamics simulations.
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
CEA – Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives, France
Appentra Solutions SL, Spain
ETHZ – Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
ECMWF – European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom
Seagate Systems UK Ltd, United Kingdom
Cray Computer GmbH, Switzerland
Twitter: @MontBlanc_Eu
Following on from the three successive Mont-Blanc projects since 2011, the three core partners Arm, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Bull (Atos Group) have united again to trigger the development of the next generation of industrial processor for Big Data and High Performance Computing. The Mont-Blanc 2020 consortium also includes CEA, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Kalray, and SemiDynamics.
The Mont-Blanc 2020 project intends to pave the way to the future low-power European processor for Exascale. To improve the economic sustainability of the processor generations that will result from the Mont-Blanc 2020 effort, the project includes the analysis of the requirements of other markets. The project’s strategy based on modular packaging would make it possible to create a family of SoCs targeting different markets, such as “embedded HPC” for autonomous driving. The project’s actual objectives are to:
The Mont-Blanc 2020 project is at the heart of the European exascale supercomputer effort, since most of the IP developed within the project will be reused and productized in the European Processor Initiative (EPI).
Bull (Atos group), France
Arm (United Kingdom)
BSC (Spain)
CEA (France)
Jülich Forschungszentrum (Germany)
Kalray (France)
SemiDynamics (Spain)
