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Exascale Computing Research lab: a focus on software applications for exascale, open to external partners
The Exascale Computing Research centre (ECR) is the fruit of the collaboration between CEA, GENCI, the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Intel.
The mission of ECR is to conduct R&D studies in co-operation with European researchers on applications that are critical for industries and HPC users from European universities.
The lab is focussing on the optimization the performance of “real applications”, on the scaling out to very high number of cores and on to developing a methodology framework for performance evaluation. The main guideline is “co-design for efficient exascale computing”. Efficiency can take different incarnations depending on the problem: being able to increase the size of the system to address problems of high relevance for science and engineering, improving precision over very long integration times, moving to much higher resolution, reducing time to solution or minimising the power envelop for a defined task. This is why, for each case, ECR works directly with the scientist to define metrics for quality and performance, an essential step for steering and validating the optimisation work.
To this end, the four founding partners of ECR, CEA, GENCI, Intel and UVSQ, have delegated some of their best specialists to work together, and pooled the needed resources to explore two main directions:
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To develop and propose a set of tools and methods capable of giving a deep understanding of how the code and the underlying system interact; identifying the inefficient sections of the code, adding dynamic instrumentation to reveal the causes of underperforming. This methodology is validated with some of the most demanding applications and is being used for assessing new architecture as well.
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To work on existing applications, coming from the industry or academic partners, to prepare them for exascale. The work between the developer and the ECR is done in tight collaboration, the objective being to learn and to share expertise to optimize performance and tackle the challenges towards Exascale. Co-operations are already active in fields such as Oil&Gas prospection, medical imaging and molecular dynamics, on open source and on proprietary code.
Presently, the Lab is staffed by over 25 scientists and engineers, backed by the rich collaborative environment that each partner brings in the perimeter of the joint work, and steered by world class experts. The research management team includes William Jalby, Chief technologist assisted by Marie Christine Sawley and Bettina Krammer.
Contact: info@exascale-computing.eu
Web: www.exascale-computing.eu
Location: 45 Boulevard des Etats Unis. 78 000 Versailles (France)
