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Taking on tomorrow’s challenges together

Leaving summer holidays far behind, we just held our General Assembly: A new year starts with many challenges for Teratec. Back to business, this editorial is an opportunity to take perspective on highlights that will mark the year 2019-2020.

The tempo was indeed set by our General Assembly held on October 10: Jean-Marc Grognet, Genopole's General Manager, explained to us why HPC, simulation and machine learning (AI) technologies have been essential in Genomics and personalized medicine to date, and why he wanted to get even closer to Teratec. Without a doubt, biotechnology is now one of the largest users of digital technology.

Over the coming months, as I mentioned at our General Assembly, Teratec must continue its rise in power towards Europe: with Teratec as its flagship, establishing the unique HPC Competence Centre in France will give each of our members visibility on opportunities that Europe is about to offer. But our mission and activities are far from being limited to this creation, since we fulfill an important role in three centers of excellence already with POP, Excellerat, FocusCoE, with our ambition to bring SMEs support project SiMSEO to a European scale.

Among the many events Teratec has planned, allow me to highlight some next key moments: on November 14, we organize a day on the Teratec Campus around the Teratec Quantum Computing Initiative, which may become the future technological breakthrough of the HPC. Preparing to the future still, join us on November 28 as we welcome 200 Master's degree students in their final year from the Universities of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) and Léonard de Vinci. The objective is to introduce them to the future challenges of our businesses while meeting our member companies, and familiarize with their recruitment needs. Let us conclude with Tetatec’s prime event for 15 years: next Forum Teratec 2020 will be held at the Ecole Polytechnique on June 16 and 17.

With much more information to discover in further details in this newsletter, we wish a good read to everyone!

Daniel Verwaerde,
President of Teratec

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The digital challenge of genomic medicine
The General Assembly was an opportunity to welcome Jean-Marc Grognet, the CEO of Genopole, who reminded us about genomics and its latest advances. Then he explained why HPC, simulation and machine learning (AI) technologies are essential in genomics as for works in personalized medicine, and how Teratec within its ecosystem will have a decisive role in helping them meet these major challenges.

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Teratec at the heart of EuroHPC's development
During the General Assembly, Daniel Verwaerde, President of Teratec, presented future developments of HPC activities, with digitalization of the economy and society in France and Europe induced by the recent changes in composition and appointments within the European Commission. He also explained how Teratec has been involved in the development of EuroHPC's evolution thus far, and is now about to create, manage and become the French HPC Competence Centre.

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On November 14, Teratec organizes a seminar on Quantum Computing
A new TQCI (Teratec Quantum Computing Initiative) seminar bringing together the initiative's partners will be held at the Teratec Campus on Thursday, November 14. This new meeting is dedicated to gather first experience feedbacks from TQCI partners, in particular on the use of Atos' Quantum Learning Machine (QLM) platform and the use of quantum computing technologies for Machine Learning applications.

On November 28, 200 students will visit the Teratec Campus
On November 28, the Teratec Campus will welcome 200 Master's degree students in their final year from the Universities of Léonard de Vinci and Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) accompanied by their professors, as part of their academic program. The objective is to introduce the know-how and latest advances of our members in terms of Simulation, HPC, but also machine learning (AI) and how to meet the recruitment needs of our member companies.

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CCRT 2019 Day - From simulation to first quantum steps
Organized on December 12 in the CEA's TGCC, first part of the day will be devoted to feedback and cases of use of the CCRT by partners such as Ineris, IRSN, Soleil, Thales DM, Valeo and CEA/DEN. The second part will present first steps forward from Cerfacs, EDF, IFPEN, CEA/DAM in the field of quantum, in particular on the Atos quantum simulator (QLM) of the CCRT.

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POP, Excellerat and FocusCoE Centres of Excellence
POP allows any European organization to get a free audit of its codes carried out by qualified structures intending to optimize these, and to drastically improve their performance.
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Excellerat promotes HPC and digital simulation in engineering applications with 6 calculation codes and 11 use cases. FocusCoE is a concerted action with dedicated service to European HPC CoEs.. Red more >>>

Welcome to the new members of Teratec
The General Assembly was the opportunity to welcome four new Industry players to our community:
- NAG, a specialist in function libraries;
- Tweag.io, which develops Open Source applications;
- Western Digital, a leader in data storage;
- Xilinx which, in addition to FPGAs, offers accelerator cards for processing large volumes of data.

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Teratec Forum 2020, the European meeting of HPC and AI experts
Come and meet all decision makers and experts of Simulation and Big Data, from the world of industry, as well as technology and research.
- Become a sponsor >>>>
and be associated with marketing and promotional activities before, during and after the event.
- Be an exhibitor >>>>
and present your latest hardware technologies, software and services.
- Submit a paper >>>>
before February 29, 2020 to intervene in the technical and application workshops.

Simulation 2020 supplement: The Digital Twins are in the spotlight
Building on success of the 7 previous editions, Teratec with L'Usine Nouvelle, L'Usine Digitale and Industrie & Technologies propose a new special issue for 2020 devoted to "Digital Twins" the fields of aeronautics, automotive, health, smart-city, naval, energy...
Be an advertiser in this supplement which will be published on April 23, 2020 and distributed to over 55,000 copies.

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6th edition of the Simulation and AI Trophies, June 16, 2020
Co-organized for six years by Usine Digitale and Teratec, the five trophies in 2020 will reward the most innovative players in the field of digital technologies (Simulation, HPC/HPDA, IA, Big Data).
The Awards for Startup, SME, Innovation, Co-design and Public prizes will highlight Start-ups, SMEs, ETI and major groups as well as some of the most advanced research laboratories.

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NAG helps you to solve your most complex optimization problems
New member of Teratec and provider of the famous NAG Numerical Library, NAG led a seminar on mathematical optimization last October 10, 2019 on the Teratec Campus. Several dozen participants discovered innovative methods (SOCP, SDP...) and shared interest of algorithmic differentiation as an associated technology.

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Run your Training Workshop on the Campus Teratec
Training Workshops have been organized on the Campus Teratec. These workshops aim at enabling companies to present their latest innovations of hardware, software or services, to show practical cases of application to an industrial context and to guide participants for their implementation. It also gives participants the opportunity to meet the Digital Simulation & Big Data community within the Teratec ecosystem.

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Discover the Teratec Campus, an ecosystem at your service
Campus Teratec is core to the French ecosystem for HPC, digital simulation and Big Data, serving the industry, earth and life sciences or commercial services. It is also a privileged site welcoming about 300 people living and working locally. As a pioneering concept, the Campus Teratec gathers in one single hub a vast and unique amount of competences for France and Europe, dedicated to hardware as well as operating systems and application software or any related services.

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Teratec, european pole and vector of innovation and competitiveness
Around large French and European industrial companies, Teratec gathers the major players in HPC, simulation, Big Data and AI ambitioning to contribute to the development of technologies and usages in these areas. The objective is to accelerate the design and implementation of most powerful systems, to foster the emergence of new technologies and associated tools, while aiming to create expertise and highly qualified jobs in these key areas.

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