TOTAL

Profile:  World’s 5th ranked publicly traded integrated international oil company. Total has operations in 130+ countries, 100,000 employees, €189,5 Billion 2013 net income.

Research and development (R&D) is an integral part of the company strategy which enables to match its services to energy and environmental challenges, in particular in the domain of the Earth Science  (Seismic, Reservoir Modelling, …).

Contribution to HPC: strong application demonstration partner to test and optimize robust and scalable numerical software.

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Philippe RICOUX

PRACE

Profile: the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe is an international non-profit association with seat in Brussels. It has 21 member countries representing European governments and organizations.

PRACE enables world-class scientific discovery and engineering for academia and industry by providing access to high performance computing, data management, storage resources and services. The rigorous access process targets high impact projects to enhance European competitiveness for the benefit of society.

Contribution to HPC: created a pan-European Research Infrastructure (RI) that provides leading High Performance Computing (HPC) resources. PRACE has an extensive pan-European education and training effort devoted to help users and to prepare next generation of scientists and engineers.

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Sergi GIRONA

DKRZ

Profile: German Climate Computing Centre provides the tools and associated services which are needed to investigate the processes in the climate system. Operates a supercomputer center to enable climate simulation

Contribution to HPC: Outstanding research infrastructure for model-based simulations of global climate change. Provides the technical infrastructure needed for processing and analysis of climate data

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Thomas LUDWIG

GENCI

Profile: agency in charge of defining the French strategy in HPC for civil research. Its mission encompasses multiple roles from promotion of HPC in research, financing and setting-up supercomputers in French centers,  to optimising utilisation by opening access of HPC equipment to all interested parties.

Contribution to HPC: since 2012 it operates the PRACE Tier-0 supercomputer “CURIE” system with a peak performance of 2.1 Petaflops and 320 Terabytes of main memory

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Stéphane REQUENA

Jülich Supercomputing Centre

Profile: institute at Jülich Forschungszentrum gathering a staff of 90 people and 35 third-party members. Explores architecture opportunities based on FPGA, Cell and GPU systems.  It provides support and higher education to specific scientific communities through simulation labs an cross disciplinary groups.

Contribution to HPC:  provides and operates supercomputer resources of the petaflop performance class, HPC tools, methods and know-how. Servers include JuRoPA, 200 Teraflop/s Intel-based and JUGENE 72-rack IBM Blue Gene/P petaflop system. JSC focuses its exascale activities on applications and algorithms

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Bernd MOHR
Godehard SUTMANN

Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, LRZ)

Profile: a competence center for large scale data archiving and backup. Active player in the area of HPC for over 20 years. It offers services to universities in Germany and to publicly funded research institutions.

Contribution to HPC: since 2012 it operates the PRACE Tier-0 supercomputer “SuperMUC” system with a peak performance of 3 Petaflop/s and more than 320 Terabytes of main memory

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Herbert HUBER

SARA

Profile: National Supercomputing and e-Science Support Center in the Netherlands to support research by developing and providing advanced ICT infrastructure, services and expertise.

Contribution to HPC: hosts various large infrastructure services including 20 to 65 TF/s CPUs, >5000 core clusters, 5PB storage, 20PB tape capacity, and the BIG Grid (tier1 site for CERN

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Peter MICHIELSE

Science & Technology Facilities Council

Profile: independent, non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (DBIS). Provides grants, access to facilities and expertise particularly in fundamental sciences

Contribution to HPC: access to world-class facilities, including neutron sources, synchrotron sources, lasers and high-performance computing facilities

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Mike ASHWORTH
Iain DUFF

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Profile: national computing facility of Spain with a mission to research, develop and manage information technologies; it strives to be first-class research in supercomputing and HPC demanding applications such as life and earth science

Contribution to HPC: hosts MareNostrum supercomputer system (94 Teraflop/s on PowerPC, 20 TeraByte memory, 280 TeraByte disk space) and coordinates the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) representing 136 TeraFlop/s capacity from 7 supercomputer centres in Spain, offering 130 million CPU hours per year to scientists

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Sergi GIRONA
Rosa BADIA
Jesus LABARTA
Ramon GONI

ANR

Profile: French research funding organisation since 2005

Contribution to HPC: identifies the priority areas and fosters private-public collaboration to enhance competitiveness

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Mark ASCH

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Profile: governed-funded research organisation being the largest fundamental research organization in Europe, CNRS carries out research in all fields of knowledge, through ten scientific institutes

Contribution to HPC: CNRS operates the IDRIS supercomputing centre, giving expertise in HPC service provisioning to all research areas. CNRS supports EESI2 in the area of earth sciences, with a focus on big data from seismic processing, numerical modelling and computer sciences.

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Sylvie JOUSSAUME

Commissariat pour les Energies Atomique et Alternatives (CEA)

Profile: French government-funded technological research organization active in low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies

Contribution to HPC: CEA is an intensive user of Petascale computing and a major player in HPC in Europe. It has a strong expertise in the operation of large HPC centres

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Romain TEYSSIER

DLR

Profile: Germany national research center for aeronautics and space in charge of the space programme

Contribution to HPC:  computational aeroacoustics simulation codes

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Norbert KROLL

INRIA

Profile: French public institute dedicated to research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). 8 research centres, 4300 employees, 250 million euros budget. Strategy of scientific excellence with technology transfer

Contribution to HPC: strongly involved in FP7 projects of which 85 in ICT domains

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Franck CAPPELLO

Numerical Algorithms Groupg (NAG)

Profile: UK not-for-profit numerical software development company

Contribution to HPC:  collaboration with wold leading entities to support academia and industy progress in developing and using supercomputing applications

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Andrew JONES

TERATEC

Profile: French initiative with the mission to create a HPC and simulation ecosystem. Non profit organisation groupig industry users, technology providers and research centres.

Contribution to HPC: gathering companies around public an dprivate labs and a training institute close to a very large supercomputing centre (CEA)

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Hervé MOUREN

Friedrich Alexander Universität

Profile: one of the largest university in Germany. Scope from humanities to law, economics, sciences, medicine and engineering.

Contribution to HPC: anchored in a close network of interdisciplinary cooperations

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Ulrich RUDE

German Research School for Simulation Sciences

Profile: school committed to research and education in the applications and methods of HPC-based computer simulation in science and engineering. It provides a Master’s and a doctoral program for next generation of computational scientists and engineers.

Contribution to HPC: its Laboratory for Parallel Programming specialises in tools that support simulation scientists in exploiting parallelism at massive scales. Example: Scalasca, a scalable performance–analysis tool

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Felix WOLF

Moscow State University

Profile: a competence center for large scale data archiving and backup.
It has been an active player in the area of high performance computing for over 20 years and provides computing power on several different levels. It offers its services to universities in Germany and to publicly funded research institutions.

Contribution to HPC: since 2012 it operates the PRACE Tier-0 supercomputer “SuperMUC” system with a peak performance of 3 Petaflop/s and more than 320 Terabytes of main memory

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Vladimir VOEVODIL

The School of Mathematics

Profile: expanding department at the University of Edinburgh with 50 people, 13 post doc and 65students

Contribution to HPC: Operational research, applied mathematics and mathematical physics interest

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Mark PARSONS
Mark BULL
Andreas GROTHEY

Technische Universität Dresden

Profile: a competence center for large scale data archiving and backup.
It has been an active player in the area of high performance computing for over 20 years and provides computing power on several different levels. It offers its services to universities in Germany and to publicly funded research institutions.

Contribution to HPC: since 2012 it operates the PRACE Tier-0 supercomputer “SuperMUC” system with a peak performance of 3 Petaflop/s and more than 320 Terabytes of main memory

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Matthias MÜLLER

The University of Manchester

Profile: a competence center for large scale data archiving and backup.
It has been an active player in the area of high performance computing for over 20 years and provides computing power on several different levels. It offers its services to universities in Germany and to publicly funded research institutions.

Contribution to HPC: since 2012 it operates the PRACE Tier-0 supercomputer “SuperMUC” system with a peak performance of 3 Petaflop/s and more than 320 Terabytes of main memory

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Lee MARGETTS

Universita del Salento

Profile: a competence center for large scale data archiving and backup.
It has been an active player in the area of high performance computing for over 20 years and provides computing power on several different levels. It offers its services to universities in Germany and to publicly funded research institutions.

Contribution to HPC: since 2012 it operates the PRACE Tier-0 supercomputer “SuperMUC” system with a peak performance of 3 Petaflop/s and more than 320 Terabytes of main memory

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Giovanni ALOISIO

University of Bristol

Profile: UK 4th ranked department in Computer Science. Microelectronics research group working on Energy Aware Computing (EACO)

Contribution to HPC:  worked on energy efficiency subtask of EESI1, helped run the Energy-Aware HPC conference, and is driving the new Energy Efficient HPC consortium (EEHPC.com). Leading work on cross-cutting issue of power efficiency in EESI2.

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Simon MAC INTOSH-SMITH

University of Nottingham

Profile: School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham rated N°1 in Research Assessment Exercice for Pharmacy.

Contribution to HPC: Research in the design and use of drugs and medicines that requires significant HPC activity

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Charlie LAUGHTON

Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique (CERFACS)

Profile: research organization to develop advanced methods for the numerical simulation and the algorithmic solution of large scientific and technological problems that requires access to supercomputers.

Contribution to HPC: parallel algorithms, code coupling, aerodynamics, combustion, climate and environment, data assimilation, and electromagnetism

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Serge GRATON

CINECA

Profile: Private body created in 1969. Consortium of 37 Italian universities and more that operates several leading HPC datacentres. Member of key projects and DEISA. Coordonates HPC Europa2 and HPCWorld

Contribution to HPC: operates a supercomputing integrated infrastructure with 15000+ processors. 168 nodes, each with 32 cores and 128 GB of RAM, 1,8PTbytes storage. Peak power 100 Tflops. IBM Blue Gene P 1024 CPU quad core, 14 Tflops. It also operate the ENI supercomputer, 10 000 processors. Experience in HPC code parallelisation and optimisation

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Giovanni ERBACCI

CSC

Profile: non-profit limited company owned by the Finnish state being the largest national centre in Northerne Europe in IT center for science. 220 people. operates the Finnish University and Research Network (Funet) with the largest collection of scientific software and databases.

Contribution to HPC: Coordinates EUDAT project to provide a sustainable pan European infrastructure for improved access to scientific data. Partner to key e-infrastructure development projects (eg PRACE)

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Per OSTER

EDF

Profile: a competence center for large scale data archiving and backup.
It has been an active player in the area of high performance computing for over 20 years and provides computing power on several different levels. It offers its services to universities in Germany and to publicly funded research institutions.

Contribution to HPC: since 2012 it operates the PRACE Tier-0 supercomputer “SuperMUC” system with a peak performance of 3 Petaflop/s and more than 320 Terabytes of main memory

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Ange CARUSO
Alberto PASANISI

INTEL

Profile: a competence center for large scale data archiving and backup.
It has been an active player in the area of high performance computing for over 20 years and provides computing power on several different levels. It offers its services to universities in Germany and to publicly funded research institutions.

Contribution to HPC: since 2012 it operates the PRACE Tier-0 supercomputer “SuperMUC” system with a peak performance of 3 Petaflop/s and more than 320 Terabytes of main memory

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Marie-Christine SAWLEY

Néovia Innovation

Profile: Consulting company in research and innovation.

Contribution to HPC: Numerical simulation, algorithm.

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Thierry BIDOT

JCA Consultance

Profile: Consulting company in scientific computing

Contribution to HPC: Climate simulation

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Jean-Claude ANDRE

Université Rennes 1

Profile: Department of Mathematics and Informatic

Contribution to HPC: data management and exploration

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François BODIN