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MARCH, 2011 - TERATEC Newsletter

European Pole of Competence in High Performance Numerical Design and Simulation

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Editorial

The 2011 year kicks off with excellent news : at the end of last year, all conditions were met to launch the construction of the Teratec Campus. The project, which has received support from the Essonne Conseil General, the Essonne Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Arpajonnais Community of Communes, will provide an initial 10,000 m² of office space and an inter-company restaurant by the spring of 2012. After the CEA Very Large Computing Center that has opened its doors in 2010, this represents the realization of this major ambition to make Bruyères-le-Châtel the technopole for high performance simulation and computing, unique in Europe and possibly in the world.
The project gives our association fresh momentum to go further at least in two directions, namely strengthening our internal relations and expanding external communication. Indeed, relations between members have a great deal of potential for creating a rich exchange of advanced technical information, shared experiences and project preparation. To achieve this potential, we will be setting up a program that allows all members to organize meetings and exchange sessions with other members of the association. With regard to external communication, the launch of the Campus is itself a major event that deserves to be widely publicized.
It should also be noted that this year, the European Commission is preparing for the 8th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. In light of this, it is essential that we make our voice heard with regard to the technical developments required to lay the groundwork for high performance computing in the future, in terms of hardware, software and applications.
Finally, as we have in previous years, we will be holding our Forum in 2011. It will take place on June 28 and 29 in the same location as last year, the highly suitable and prestigious Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau.

There is no doubt that this event will be another opportunity for all of us to come together and promote the importance and role of high performance simulation and computing.

Gérard ROUCAIROL
Chairman of the TERATEC Association

TERATEC News

6th TERATEC Forum to be held on June 28 and 29, 2011 at the Ecole Polytechnique
The TERATEC Forum brings together the best international HPC experts for a leading French and European event. It confirms the importance of the sector in improving companies' competitiveness and capacity for innovation.

New exascale computing research center opens to study application optimization and performance
The Exascale Computing Research (ECR) center opened its doors in Versailles in October 2010. Exascale computing represents a new, highly anticipated era in high performance computing. This laboratory will be joining the TERATEC Campus in 2012.

CEA Very Large Computing Center (TGCC) inaugurated
On October 25, 2010, French Minister for Higher Education and Research Valérie Pécresse inaugurated the building for the CEA Very Large Computing Center (TGCC). This exceptional, 6,500-m2 space on the Teratec Technology Cluster site in Bruyères-le Châtel (Essonne department) is devoted to the installation of large supercomputers

Collaborative Projects between Industry and Research

ACTIVOPT Project (Optimization Interactive Tools for Robust Design)
The ACTIVOPT developments have produced a set of tools, interfaces and algorithms that are accessible within the same interoperable, interactive environment. The algorithms studied as part of the research efforts can also be used as a starting point for industrial implementations. These results are a foundation for completing projects and studying and determining new design methodologies.

COOL-IT Project (Energy optimization for datacenters)
The COOL-IT project is working to minimize the total energy required to run a computer infrastructure. It is made up of three main components, whose complementarity and synergies will help to optimize overall energy consumption by computing centers.

COLLAVIZ Project (Open source platform for remote collaborative scientific visualization and work)
Twenty-four months after launching the project and in keeping with the commitments made in the proposal, an industrialized version of the generic platform is now being finalized to ultimately be adapted to the needs of end users, who have been closely involved since the start of the project.

CSDL (Complex Systems Design Lab) Project
As you will recall, the aim of this project is to implement a comprehensive, collaborative decision-making assistance environment for designing complex systems, particularly in the preliminary project phase. In effect, this is the most strategically effective time to use simulation tools in order to produce the best possible design.

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EHPOC Project (High performance environment for optimization and design)
This project, which came to a successful close in 2010, went beyond simply supplying essential technological components for the Open HPC and CSDL projects. It also served as an opportunity to test advanced, state-of-the-art technologies for high performance simulation that will be the go-to computation methods of the future for industrial companies.

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H4H Project (Optimise HPC Applications on Heterogeneous Architectures)
The objective of the H4H project (Hybrid4HPC) is to supply developers of high performance computing applications with a parallel hybrid programming environment that allows them to optimally combine various parallel programming models, thus making the most efficient use of heterogeneous platforms made up of both computing nodes with standard processors and graphics accelerators, like GPGPUs.

OASIS Project (Optimizing the die-stamping process and tools)
The OASIS project aims to develop a software tool to automatically optimize all of the parameters in the pressing process in order to considerably reduce the time to design a die-stamping line, and therefore the time to design a part made of high-resistance steel.

Open HPC Project (Open source software for high performance computing & software service platform)
The most noteworthy highlight of this project, which ended in 2010, was the successful collaboration with the CSTB. Construction simulations led to applications for funding being filed for other projects such as MOBIL, which is the natural successor to Open HPC in the field of construction.

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OPSIM Project (Optimization of design SIMulation)
The plenary meeting that marked the end of the OPSIM project was held in September. All of the results were implemented during 4 synthesis and innovation studies on industrial projects. The studies were used to quantify the contribution made by the work to reducing design times and improving product compromises (mass / performance / cost).

OPUS Project (Software platform for uncertainty treatment in simulation)
The OPUS project promotes the emergence of an open source, generic software platform for uncertainty treatment. The platform will mainly cover statistics and probabilities, as well as advanced supervision of deterministic industrial computer codes.

PARMA Project (Parallel Programming for Multi-core Architectures)
Initiated by several members of the TERATEC association, in cooperation with German partners including Jülich, PARMA is a pioneering ITEA2 project in multi core programming.

PARMAT Project (Parallelization for material simulation)
Between 2007 and 2010, the PARMAT project brought together experts in metallurgy and scientific computing. The general objective of the project was the significantly boost the capacities of codes on different scales: ab-initio computing on the atomic scale and, on the mesoscopic scale, radiation damage simulations using a kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm and a field model.

More informations about TERATEC

Contact : Jean-Pascal JEGU
Bard 1 - Domaine du Grand Rué - 91680 BRUYERES-LE-CHATEL, France
Tel. : +33(0)1 69 26 61 76 - infos@teratec.fr - www.teratec.eu

TERATEC
European Pole of Competence in High Performance Numerical Design and Simulation

TERATEC is a major player in Europe in the field of intensive computing and simulation. It is located in Essonne in the vicinity of Arpajon. It constitutes the core of a technopole referred to as a R&D area and is a member belonging to the world competitiveness cluster known as "SYSTEMATIC Paris Region".

TERATEC Forum 2011
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TERATEC Forum 2011
June 28 & 29
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Members Events

Rencontre Industriels / Chercheurs autour de l’analyse numérique
March 3, 2011 - Univers. Pierre et Marie Curie 75005 Paris

L'IMdR organise 3 journées en mars et en avril, campus de l'ESTP de Cachan

STAR European Conference
March 21 & 23, 2011

Enjeux du Calcul scientifique à Haute Performance
March 22, 2011 - Ecole Centrale de Paris

Formation de base au coupleur Open-PALM
April 18 & 20, 2011 - Toulouse

8th European LS-DYNA® Users Conference
May 23 & 24, 2011 - Strasbourg

6ème Conction Interne SYSTEMATIC
June 15, 2011 - Paris

TERATEC Forum 2011
June 28 & 29, 2011 - Ecole Polytechnique 91120 Palaiseau

European Pole of Competence in High Performance Numerical Design and Simulation

High-performance numerical simulation and design have become essential to industry and research.
More than 70 stakeholders in the field—providers, users and researchers—have joined forces within the TERATEC association to: :

Contribute to the development of a wide variety of uses for high-performance computing while making them widely accessible

Accelerate the design and implementation of new computer systems with increasingly powerful hardware and software,

Advance the development of new simulation methods and related tools,

Encourage skill building and creation of highly qualified jobs in the field.

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