The report I submitted to the Commissariat Général à l'Investissement and the French Ministry of Productive Recovery, for example, will result in a call for projects to develop simulation methods and applications. That report, entitled "La simulation haute performance au service de la compétitivité des entreprises," proposes several measures for promoting more widespread access to high performance computing for French industry and small businesses, particularly to develop new innovation capacities.

Another highlight of this fall was the September 12 announcement by the French President and the Minister of Productive Recovery of an industrial policy built around 34 project plans. One of these plans, entitled "Supercalculateurs," aims to help our country master high performance computing technologies and simulation methods. The rationale for this plan clearly explains Teratec's importance in organizing and animating our industrial community.

Alongside this encouraging news, the Teratec Forum in June was once again a resounding success. A thousand participants took the opportunity to meet for a series of exceptionally high-level plenary talks and topical workshops and to visit an exhibit hall featuring some sixty booths. One of the high points of the event was Louis Gallois' speech, in which he affirmed his belief that simulation has a strategic role to play in our country.

In conclusion, I would like to mention that in June, the ESI Group opened its offices on the Teratec Campus; Silkan and its partners CMI Defence and AvantisTechnology will follow suit in November. We are entering a new phase of high performance computing in France, supported by European initiatives based on the ETP4HPC technology platform. Teratec, its members, and its partners should be proud of their contribution as a driving force behind these initiatives, and we will continue to be a significant factor in their success.

SAVE THE DATE! Presentation of the call for projects in HPC and Simulation
October 7, 2013 at 2:00 pm – CEA Very Large Computing Center (TGCC) / Teratec Campus (Bruyères-le-Châtel)

A budget of 150 million euros has been set aside for "core industry" calls for projects by the French National Fund for a Digital Society, as part of its program to invest in the future. Teratec, in partnership with the Advancity, Cap Digital, Medicen, and Systematic competitiveness clusters, invites you to attend a half-day presentation on the call for projects in HPC and Simulation.

1. A presentation of "core numerical projects" by Laurent Rojey, assistant director of the Digital Economy program at the Commissariat Général à I'investissement (CGI)
The primary objective of this new call for projects is to promote the emergence and growth of tomorrow's "digital champions," that is, digital companies offering particularly innovative solutions and capable of seizing new economic opportunities. The secondary objective is to organize and strengthen digital industrial ecosystems.

2. A presentation of the report on high performance simulation to make companies more competitive, by Teratec President Gérard Roucairol, prepared by request of the CGI and DGCIS
The primary objectives were to clarify the stakes of high performance digital simulation, taking into account technological developments and breakthroughs, and propose measures to increase the use of high performance computing in those economic sectors where it is already used, expand its use into new sectors, and encourage the formation of appropriate ecosystems.

3. A presentation on HPC and simulation in systems development and design by Gérard Poirier, chairman of the Systems Development and Design Tools (OCDS) task force at Systematic
The OCDS roadmap confirms the central role of HPC and numerical simulation in designing, implementing, and running complex systems.

4. A presentation of the call for projects in HPC and simulation by Fabien Terraillot, head of the Software Bureau, DGCIS, Ministry of Productive Recovery
Using high performance computing and simulation offers a major opportunity to make companies more competitive while also developing a highly innovative industrial sector.
The call for projects aims to increase mastery of the tools required to operate the next generations of supercomputers, support the development of technology suppliers, and promote increased cooperation between players in the field, particularly suppliers of technology and the sectors that use it.

TERATEC 2014 Forum
The ninth edition of TERATEC Forum will take place on July 1 & 2, 2014 at the Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseau, Paris area).

On July 1, the plenary sessions will bring together personalities from the political, economic and academic users of international industrial leading providers of leaders in these technologies and innovative SMEs around issues of supercomputing. July 2, technical workshops will provide an update on major topics. During these two days, an exhibition of sixty stands bring together key players in the high-performance simulation presented their latest innovations in HPC.

To participate in these days, submit a paper in the workshops, book a booth at the exhibition or be an TERATEC Forum 2014 sponsor, please contact Jean-Pascal JEGU - Tél. : +33 (0)9 70 65 02 10

Back on TERATEC Forum 2013
The 8th Teratec Forum confirmed the strategic importance of HPC in the industrial and service sectors, and its expansion to SMEs

Everyone involved in high-performance simulation, from major operators and simulation companies to the government, users, and small businesses, officially endorsed its important role. Meanwhile, General Commissioner for Investments Louis Gallois defined high-performance simulation as a strategic priority for investing in the future of digital technologies. "Numerical technology is one of the highest investment priorities for the future," stated Louis Gallois at the plenary session closing, "And high-performance computing and simulation are at the core of this priority." "Numerical simulation is one of the key factors for a productive recovery in France," added Gérard Roucairol, president of Teratec. "France is in an exceptionally strong position; an unprecedented concentration of skills can be found within its borders, covering the entire value chain from hardware to software applications," he concluded.

ACDC - Adaptive Content Delivery Cluster
The ACDC project conducted an advanced exploration of the concept of cloud-based computing environments for audiovisual professionals. The project resulted in production of several prototypes, with concrete implementations illustrating video management with this type of IT architecture

CALLISTO - Realistic Immersive Architectural Simulation
The aim of the CALLISTO project is to develop an innovative facility enabling users to tour the interior of a building in real time, on a life-size scale, with its acoustical and light properties rendered, in order to give users a visual and acoustic experience similar to an actual tour and allow them to make decisions about a construction project. While touring the building, it will be possible to interact with the interior to change certain elements and see the consequences immediately.

H4H - Optimise HPC Applications on Heterogeneous Architectures
The purpose of the H4H project is to provide the developers of high performance computing applications with a hybrid parallel programming environment to optimally combine use of different parallel programming models and therefore to use heterogeneous platforms as efficiently as possible. Three years after this effort began, several important results have been obtained.

PERFCLOUD - Performance for the Cloud
The PERFCLOUD project aims to develop new technologies (hardware and software) in order to offer the architecture with the best possible performance for its cost for HPC applications. This R&D project by the FSN has been integrated into the H4H project to take advantage of synergies in sponsorship and optimization of applications on hybrid architectures.

MECASIF - Small-scale models for upstream design of reliable industrial systems
The MECASIF project aims to produce significant advances in generating and industrially implementing validated, small scale, non-linear models in certain key fields of physics. These advances would be able to integrate directly into existing industrial design workflows.

MUSICAS - Unified methodology for simulating the integrity and controllability of welded joint s
The goal of the MUSICAS is to demonstrate that streamlined integration of existing software into a business infrastructure, when combined with limited R&D on multiphysical modeling of the welding process, can make it possible to automate the digital welding simulation that corresponds to effective methodologies in the industry.

RICHELIEU - Accelerate science-oriented programming languages
The RICHELIEU project is a good track. The connection between Scilab and LLVM/VMKit has been successfully performed, the first step to provide Just-In-Time compilation in Scilab. In parallel, the first version of the static analyzer scilint will be soon published.

TERRAX : TerraNumerica - TerraMagna - TerraDynamica - TerraMobilita
The 4 TERRAX projects aim to develop the various technologies needed to model and simulate their various actors and phenomena with the detail, fidelity, and timing required for interactive applications. TerraNumerica focuses on developing 3D modeling and digitization technologies for cities and multimedia viewing options. TerraMagna aims to develop innovative solutions for local governments and land-use planning, urban design, and environment professionals. TerraDynamica focuses on developing dynamic city animation tools with the goal of modeling "life in the city" using behavioral animation models. TerraMobilita strives to develop innovative solutions for modeling roads and updating road maps, as well as mobility and accessibility assistance services.

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Less than 50 days left to submit your project for the BULL – JOSEPH FOURIER PRIZE ! For the 5th year Bull and GENCI will award the BULL – JOSEPH FOURIER PRIZE aimed at boosting the development of computer simulation in France. The Prize will recognize the work of an individual or a team in the field of application parallelization for computer simulation, carried out under the auspices of a French research facility, whether publicly or privately owned.

CLUSTERVISION, in collaboration with DELL, won the project launched in late 2012 by the Paris Institute of Earth Physics with the goal of acquiring a high performance solution for parallel computing and high performance data analysis.

At the end of 2012, Distene released MeshGems, its library of Meshing Software Components, that has been synthesizing a long restructuration work of its technology. Distene keeps maintaining its course towards excellence by investing in the technologies of tomorrow, including HPC. And, to strengthen its international leadership, Distene will sponsor the next "International Meshing Roundtable" in October.

ESI Group, leader and pioneer in virtual prototyping solutions for the manufacturing industries, is opening its new offices on the Teratec Campus, the largest high performance computing center in Europe, based outside of Paris. Read more

GENCI is launching the first session in the 2014 year for resource time at France's national computing centers (CINES, IDRIS, and TGCC), from September 16 to October 18, 2013 at midnight.

NICE (Italy) recently announced the release of EnginFrame 2013.0, the new enhanced version of its popular high-performance computing (HPC) application portal.

A new website has been posted for code Z-set, www.zset-software.com. Entirely devoted to the software suite for analyzing materials and structures, it describes the various products, software solutions, and services offered.

OXALYA and OVH.com widespread HPC in the Cloud. Everything you have always wanted to know about HPC and Cloud Computing will be unveiled only for you, during a 2 hours long conference, next october 8th from 10:30 AM to 12:30 AM during the OVHSUMMIT 2013 at the Docks de Paris.

The PRACE research infrastructure has opened its 8th call for projects, inviting European researchers to use its computing resources (petaflop supercomputers).

SYSFERA has been busy! The next version of SysFera-DS will be released at SuperComputing'13 with new features, new clients (CINES and IRT BioAster), and a testimonial by Arnaud Renard of ROMEO on the benefits of the SysFera-DS solution for the ROMEO and CRIHAN mesocenters and their interfaces with research and industry."