POP3 Webinar – Boost Your HPC Application Performance

Join us for an exclusive webinar to learn how the POP3 Centre of Excellence, funded by EuroHPC JU, provides free services to help European organizations analyze and optimize their parallel HPC applications.

POP3 connects you with top European experts who offer:
✔️ In-depth performance assessments of parallel codes
✔️ Optimization strategies to improve scalability and efficiency
✔️ Energy and cost reduction techniques

Don't miss this chance to boost the productivity and competitiveness of your HPC applications — for free.

Date:  Apr 29, 2025 2:00 PM CEST

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FF+: Open Call Statistics Sub-project Announcement

FFplus supports European SMEs through two Open Calls: Business Experiments (Type 1) for first-time HPC users tackling business challenges, and Innovation Studies (Type 2) for experienced SMEs/start-ups leveraging Generative AI and HPC at scale. With €4M in funding, these calls drive technological growth and competitiveness. 
The First FFplus Open Calls and were Successful: 19 Sub-projects for Business Experiments and 18 Sub-projects for Innovation Studies were Selected for Funding

Read the Press Release on Business Experiments Open Call results and statistics

Read the Press Release on Innovation studies Open Call results and statistics

POP-3 : Application for free services

The Performance Optimisation and Productivity Centre of Excellence in HPC provides performance optimisation and productivity services for academic and industrial code(s) in all domains.

Enhance your code's performance with free expert evaluations from POP3.

Our team identifies bottlenecks, suggests improvements, and provides optional services like proof-of-concept development and energy efficiency assessments to maximise your code's efficiency and impact.

By leveraging POP3, European organisations across all sectors (industries, research, academia) can significantly enhance their operational efficiency, leading to substantial financial gains.

Boost your code's performance with POP3!

Get more information and apply now to maximize your impact!

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HPC Talk for Excellerat 2: "Accelerate time-to-science using the NVIDIA platform

EXCELLERAT-P2 (WP7) organizes for you a webinar / HPC Talk : "Accelerate time-to-science using the NVIDIA platform"- on Thursday 14 November: 10.00-11.30am CET

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CASTIEL-2: 10th "Code of the month": EoCoE proposal on Alya-Wind - September 18,  11AM to 12PM

Alya is a high-performance computational mechanics finite element code that solves complex coupled multi-physics BSC problems, mostly from the engineering realm. Alya uses a Fractional Step scheme to solve the incompressible Navier Stokes equations. A Runge Kutta explicit time discretization is used for temporal discretization. 
Alya has been used by Iberdrola for wind resource assessment for more than ten years.
Alya is a relatively mature code that is used in several CoEs. Moreover, it is part of the Unified European Applications Benchmark Suite for CPU and GPU. It has been tested on most European Supercomputers with scalability results up to more than 100.000 cores. 
During EoCoE-II, in collaboration with the FAU node-level optimization team Alya's GPU implementation has been significantly optimized. Moreover, excellent weak scalability has been obtained using the Algebraic Multigrid solve PSCToolkit up to 16000 million elements.
During the last two years, the Large Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics group at BSC has been developing a new high-order spectral element code, named SOD2D. The use of high-order elements has provided superior accuracy which is critical for scale-resolving simulation. The code is fully open source and has opened the way to new wind energy collaborations with Ocean Winds, a joint venture between EDP and Engie. 
The Large Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics group at BSC has a strong interest in collaboration with real-world users. While this talk will focus mainly on wind applications, examples from other fields such as automotive and aircraft aerodynamics, where BSC has collaborated with SEAT and Airbus, will also be presented.

TERATEC interviewed for the EXCELLERAT project!

In an interview about Horizon Results Booster's support to European projects, our Project Manager Samir Ben Chaabane presented the European Centre of Excellence in Engineering (EXCELLERAT) and its aim to bring together a broad range of services, tools and expertise to support industrial users, technology providers, academics, developers and engineers. This project benefited from HRB's support in analysing key exploitable results and offering context for improving them!

FFplus: Launch of the FFplus Calls for Projects

FFplus (successor to the Fortissimo projects) is a European initiative highlighting the adoption of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) by SMEs and startups across Europe, showcasing the business benefits and impacts of adopting HPC and AI in real business models.
During the project's duration, SMEs and startups will be supported by six open calls to fund experiments (type 1) and innovation studies (type 2).
The first two calls for projects have been launched.
The experiments will focus on the adoption of High-Performance Computing (HPC) by SMEs to solve specific issues faced by SMEs that have never used intensive computing services or have never had the experience.
On the other hand, the innovation studies will support European SMEs and startups already active in the field of generative AI technology but lacking the necessary computing resources to scale up.
Selected candidates will receive funding and support from FFplus to carry out these sub-projects.

More information can be found at the link: https://www.ffplus-project.eu

Submission deadline: September 4, 2024, at 5:00 PM (Brussels time).

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CASTIEL-2 :Seventh "Code of the month" : GROMACS by BioExcel

GROMACS is a molecular simulation suite with tens of thousands of users worldwide in both academia and industry.
Biomedical applications (biomolecules) are likely the most common, but use of GROMACS is far from limited to that.
It is also popular in other areas that require atomistic simulations such as polymer physics and (nano)flow

13/03 from 11:00 to 12:00 CET

Market Place CC-FR

Support for the use of HPC, HPDA, AI and Quantum Computing

CASTIEL project-2 and EuroCC 2 and EuroCC4SEE projects

CASTIEL project-2 and EuroCC 2 and EuroCC4SEE projects are conducting a Europe-wide survey to better understand the current training needs in HPC, AI, and Quantum Computing.
Whether you're a student, educator, researcher, or professional — your insights are essential!
The "BoF Working Group" has prepared a survey to gather insights from European communities on training programs in HPC, AI, and Quantum Computing.
The aim is to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement within the European training ecosystem. The results of this survey will be presented at ISC25 this June in Hamburg, and we are also planning to publish a whitepaper based on the findings.

Take the survey here (open until May 10)

CASTIEL-2: Code of the Month vol.15 –EoCoE-Parflow

ParFlow is a parallel, integrated hydrology model that simulates spatially distributed surface and subsurface flow, as well as land surface processes including evapotranspiration and snow.

In EoCoE, Parflow is used as groundwater modelling framework, combined with the hydropower infrastructure management system HYPERstreamHS to provide high-resolution hydrological forecasting at the continental scale.

Wednesday, March 26th at 11.00 AM CET.

Register here!

CASTIEL-2: Code of the Month vol. 13 – Plasma PEPSC CoE

The 13th  Code of the Month webinar will take place on January 29 at 11:00.
Abstract:  The Plasma-PEPSC Center of Excellence (CoE) focuses on advancing plasma simulations through optimization for exascale computing. This presentation reviews the CoE's four core simulation codes' computational features, scalability, and GPU support: BIT1 for plasma-material interaction, GENE for fusion energy, PIConGPU for laser-plasma interaction, and Vlasiator for space physics. Each code employs advanced methodologies to address domain-specific challenges, including particle-in-cell, gyrokinetic, and hybrid-Vlasov approaches. We will examine their performance on modern HPC architectures, highlighting optimization strategies for load balancing, memory usage, and hardware acceleration to achieve efficient and scalable plasma simulations.

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CASTIEL-2: Code of the Month vol. 11 – (CEEC CoE )

Codes: FLEXI, GALAEXI (CEEC / Institute of Aerodynamics and Gasdynamics (IAG), University of Stuttgart)

FLEXI/GALÆXI: A High-Order, Highly Efficient HPC Solver for Compressible Multiscale Flows

Presenter: Anna Schwarz and Andrea Beck

Wednesday 30.10. @11:00

CASTIEL-2: 8th "Code of the month" : FALL3D and OpenPDAC by CHEESE CoE

The codes FALL3D and OpenPDAC are able to simulate different phenomena associated with explosive volcanic eruptions. FALL3D models atmospheric consequences of volcano outbreaks including the dispersal and sedimentation of particles and ashes. After the outbreak of Cumbre Vieja in autumn 2021, CoE ChEESE's related urgent computing services have been used to advise the local authorities of La Palma e.g. on rerouting flights or issuing warnings or confinements for the population. OpenPDAC simulates phenomena (pyroclastic flows, ballistic ejecta) associated with phreatic explosions and occurring at a local scale. These kind of eruptions represent an important hazard, as testified by the recent events at Ontake (Japan) and White Island (new Zealand), and in the framework of the ChEEse project the code OpenPDAC will be used for a first assessment of hazard from phreatic explosion at Vulcano island (Italy).

Wednesday, May 29th at 11am-12 CEST

In this podcast we talk about all things supercomputers. - What are supercomputers used for and why are they crucial for research and development?
- What new technologies are there on the horizon?
- What's the connection between AI and supercomputing?

In our episodes we are interviewing guests from all around Europe who are going to talk about their work and hopefully clear misconceptions in multiple fields such as life science, machine learning, engineering, data science, quantum computing and more.

POP-3 : Performance Optimisation and Productivity - Le Centre d'Excellence sur l'Optimisation des Performances et la Productivité

Teratec is a partner in the European POP3 (Performance Optimisation and Productivity) project as part of Horizon Europe, the ninth framework program following Horizon 2020 and supported by EUROHPC-JU. This center of excellence brings together the best HPC experts at the European level, providing free analysis and optimization services for high-performance computing applications developed and/or used by businesses, academics, and research centers across Europe.
For Teratec, this project offers an additional opportunity to support its members, as well as all European organizations (industries, research centers, laboratories), by enabling them to optimize their applications to increase efficiency, which generally leads to a significant return on investment.
By way of illustration, POP has already achieved remarkable goals, and here are some "Success Stories":

• Performance analysis by POP experts improved the performance of a CFD application by up to six times.

• Thanks to the efforts of POP experts, the execution speed of a magnetic materials study code was increased by 46%.

• The intervention of POP experts reduced the execution time of parallel simulations of astrophysical fluid dynamics code by 40%.

To apply, please visit: https://pop-coe.eu/request-service-form

For more information, please contact: saber.zribi@teratec.eu
samir.ben-chaabane@teratec.eu

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HPC, HPDA and AI training programme

Discover the 2023 year-end program and register!
• 28-29/11/23 : MPI Parallel Programming Models, OpenMP
• 04-08/12/23 : Artificial Intelligence for physics simulation
• 11-13/12/23 : Multi-architecture parallelism with the C++/Kokkos library
• 11-13/12/23 : Basic Python Programming
• 14-15/12/23 : Python for performance, parallel computing and GPU computing

Register for webinars dedicated to HPC, HPDA, AI and Quantum Computing technologies

Register for upcoming webinars!

• 28/11/23, 11h: OpenFoam, the open source CFD alternative?
• 07/12/23, 11h: Calcul Quantique : De la recherche à l'industrie
• 12/12/23, 11h: Flow simulation for the drone and the light aircraft industries
• 23/01/24, 11h, HPC Platform for Enhanced OpenFOAM Performance: Comparative Analysis
• 30/01/24, 11h: Explore and visualize large-scale data with ParaView

TERATEC interviewed for the EXCELLERAT project!

Excellerat brings together the European expertise needed to create a Centre of Excellence in industrial engineering with a wide range of services, paving the way towards exascale, as part of the HPC strategy driven by EuroHPC. To these ends, Excellerat's first pahse, which started in December 2018 for a duration of 36 months, was based on six reference applications: Nek5000, Alya, AVBP, TPLS, FEniCS and Coda. These codes are used in industry and are promising candidates for execution on exascale demonstrators, pre-exascale systems and exascale machines. The Excellerat Centre of Excellence has just been extended from January 2023 for a further 4 years.

CASTIEL : Coordination and Support Action (CSA)

The CASTIEL Coordination and Support Action (CSA) leads networking activities at European level between the National Competence Centres (NCCs) of the EuroCC project for topics related to High-Performance Computing (HPC). CASTIEL focuses on training, industrial interaction and cooperation, and business support, to help raise awareness of HPC-related technologies and expertise. As a centre for information exchange and training, CASTIEL encourages networking between NCCs and helps to pool ideas to develop best practice.

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