EU Project interTwin
Project duration
Sep. 1, 2022 - Aug. 31, 2025
Partners
- EGI Foundation, Netherlands
- Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie, Poland
- Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique (CERFACS), France
- European Organization for Nuclear Researc (CERN), Switzerland
- CESNET Zajmove Sdruzeni Pravnickych Osob, Czech Republic
- Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CCMC), Italy
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain
- Deltares, Netherlands
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMFW), UK
- EODC Earth Observation Data Centre for Water Resources Monitoring GmbH, Austria
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH), Switzerland
- Europäische Akademie Bozen (EURAC), Italy
- National Infrastructures for Research and Technology (GRNET), Greece
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy
- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany
- Keemilise ja bioloogilise füüsika instituut (KBFI), Estonia
- KNMI - Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut, Netherlands
- Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP), Portugal
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften E.V., Germany
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU), Germany
- Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poland
- Technische Universität Wien (TUW), Austria
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), UK
- Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
- Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
- Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
- Institut Jozef Stefan (IJS), Slovenia
- Institut informacijskih znanosti, Slovenia
Funding
The project is funded by the European Union Horizon Europe Programme - Grant Agreement Number 101058386 under the call HORIZON-INFRA-2021-TECH-01.
Project description
The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) participates in the new European project interTwin. The project has 31 partners and is coordinated by the EGI foundation. It aims at co-designing and implementing the prototype of an interdisciplinary Digital Twin Engine (DTE), which provides a common approach on Digital Twins (DT) across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines. This includes Artificial Intelligence (AI) workflows making use of cutting-edge High-Performance Computing (HPC) architectures. The project receives a total budget of EUR 12.4M for its duration of 36 month from the European Commission.
Modern computing workflows require capabilities of handling compute-intensive solvers along with large and fast data-processing. Hence, there is an increasing demand for ready-to-use tools that are able to process and run these complex AI-based workflows in heterogeneous HPC environments. In interTwin, the ambition is to develop a DT blueprint architecture and an interdisciplinary DTE as an open-source platform, which provides generic and tailored software components for modelling and simulation to integrate application-specific DTs.
JSC will provide cloud computing resources that are co-located with HPC resources and, in particular, integrated with large-capacity file systems at JSC. Furthermore, JSC collaborates with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on the development of an AI workflow and method lifecycle to design and develop generalizable and widely applicable AI workflows.
Links
Project website: interTwin