Projects and Initiatives
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Current Projects and Initiatives
AIDAS
Virtual lab between CEA, France and FZJ, Germany
2020 to December 2024
AIDAS will develop scalable and optimized application codes in selected scientific fields, explore the potential benefits of new and future computer architectures, and promote the synergetic interdisciplinary development and use of generic methods and algorithms for exascale computing. The ATML Concurrency and Parallelism at JSC works together with the CEA on the extension of the PIC code Smilei with fine-grained tasking. The project started in 2020 and will run for four years.
Contact: Ivo Kabadshow
FlexFMM
Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
November 2022 to October 2025
High-performance computing (HPC) is now one of the fundamental research methods in many scientific disciplines. High-performance computers have been reaching the exaflop performance class (at least 1018 operations per second) since this year. For applications to efficiently exploit the power of exascale systems, scalability must be improved on very large and heterogeneous systems. A variety of components are required for modern high-performance computing: from processors to data storage and file systems to software and algorithms. All these components also require new technologies and adaptations to specific applications and interfaces.
Contact: Ivo Kabadshow
Project description:
https://gauss-allianz.de/de/project/title/FlexFMM
FMhub: A Fast Multipole Solver Hub for the Scientific Community
Funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG ( Project number 443189148)
September 2021 to August 2024
The new DFG-funded FMhub project aims to provide an open-source fast multipole method (FMM) for the scientific community as a flexible C++ library called FMSolvr to compute long-range interactions. The code will be made available together with community-building tools such as version control, a bug tracker, continuous integration, and deployment tools as well as comprehensive documentation. Together with Prof. Matthias Werner and his team from Chemnitz University of Technology, researchers at JSC will employ software engineering techniques to work towards these goals. The project started in September 2021 and will run for three years.
Contact at Forschungszentrum Jülich: Ivo Kabashow
TIME-X: Time parallelization for eXascale computing
Funded by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU, grant agreement No 955701)
April 2021 to March 2024
TIME-X will take the next leap in the development and deployment of parallel-in-time integration methods for massively parallel HPC simulation, enabling their efficient usage for real-life applications. TIME-X unites all relevant actors at the European level for the first time in a joint strategic research effort.
Contact at Forschungszentrum Jülich: Dr. Robert Speck
Project page: https://www.time-x.eu
HiRSE_PS: Preparatory Study for the Helmholtz Platform for Research Software Engineering
January 2022 to December 2023
Research Software Engineering (RSE) is forming as a new subject of investigation in Europe, Germany, and the Helmholtz Association. In this context, the concept behind the Helmholtz Platform for Research Software Engineering (HiRSE) sees the establishment of central activities in RSE and the targeted, sustainable funding of strategically important software by Community Software Infrastructure (CSI) groups as mutually supportive aspects of a single entity.
Contact at Forschungszentrum Jülich: Dr. Robert Speck
Project page: https://www.helmholtz-hirse.de/
StroemungsRaum
Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, grant No 16ME0708)
OCTOBER 2022 to September 2025
Future Exascale computing architectures will feature a high number of heterogeneous hardware components that are comprised of special-purpose processsors or accelerators. The corresponding realization of Computational Fluid Dyanamics (CFD) application software as a central core component of nowaday's CFD simulations in industrial context requries high-scaling methods.
Contact at Forschungszentrum Jülich: Dr. Robert Speck
Project page: https://gauss-allianz.de/de/project/title/StroemungsRaum
Finished Projects
AlphaNumerics Zero, Helmholtz AI Project
Funded by the Helmholtz Association’s Initiative and Networking Fund (INF)
August 2020 to Juli 2023
The goal of AlphaNumerics Zero is to rethink the design of numerical methods on high-performance computers. The project uses reinforcement learning techniques so that the computer independently learns the optimal numerical solution method for a given simulation problem.
Contact: Dr. Robert Speck
AlphaNumerics Zero in the AI Consultant Team
Paraphase
Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
2016 to 2019
Project "ParaPhase – Raum-zeit-parallele adaptive Simulation von Phasenfeldmodellen auf Höchstleistungsrechnern"
Contact: Dr. Robert Speck
PinTSimE: Project on Parallel Simulation of Multi-Modal Energy Systems
Funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG ( Project number 450829162)
February 2021 until August 2025
The goal of PinTSimE is to define methodologies for the use of parallel-in-space-and-time techniques for the simulation of multi-modal energy systems in order to achieve faster than real-time performance. The two parallelization techniques combined will ensure an effective use of simulations for the design, analysis, control, and optimization of multi-modal power grids.
Contacts: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrea Benigni, Dr. Robert Speck
Project description:
Space-time parallel simulation of multi-modal energy systems