The VESTEC project will support decision-making during natural hazard emergencies such as wildfires. © iStock.com/Byronsdad
New exascale projects at EPCC The EU has recently funded a significant number of new projects to continue to drive forward Europe’s readiness for the transition to exascale computing. As a result EPCC will add another three projects to its portfolio of exascale activities. VESTEC EPCC has been awarded €350,000 as part of the successful VESTEC proposal. VESTEC, led by the German Centre for Aerospace Research, will develop new models for “urgent supercomputing” and real-time data feeds with the aim of turning supercomputers into powerful decision-support tools for natural hazard emergencies such as wildfires, mosquito-borne disease outbreaks and dangerous space weather events. EPiGRAM-HS EPCC has been awarded €500,000 as part of this project to address the heterogeneity challenge of programming exascale supercomputers. Led by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH), EPiGRAM-HS will improve
programmability, extending a set of existing programming models to exploit accelerators, reconfigurable hardware and heterogeneous memory systems. SAGE-2 SAGE-2 (Percipient StorAGe for Exascale Data Centric Computing 2) will create a next-generation data storage system to enable extreme scale computational workflows. The project will build on the Mero object store to create a system where data-centric computing can be undertaken, moving compute to data rather than data to compute. EPCC has been awarded €310,000 to work on integrating new nonvolatile memory technologies with the object store and storage hierarchy, and enabling byte-level access to data for applications.
The newsletter of EPCC, the supercomputing centre at the University of Edinburgh
Lorna Smith EPCC Group Manager l.smith@epcc.ed.ac.uk
EPCC has been at the forefront of research into exascale systems, the next generation of HPC, for a number of years now. Our involvement includes key projects such as CRESTA1 and NextGenIO2, which have explored both hardware development and the preparation of software and applications. [1] https://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/projects-portfolio/ cresta-collaborative-research-exascalesystemware-tools-and-applications [2] http://www.nextgenio.eu
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