New Supercomputing Collaboration brings Europe and Japan closer
HANAMI (HPC AlliaNce for Applications and supercoMputing Innovation) is the next generation of the HPC alliance between Europe and Japan
Health, climate, quantum physics, or materials science. These are just some of the areas in which advanced computing will play a leading role as basis for scientific, industrial, and social development. To strategically position Europe Japan this area research, HANAMI, HPC Alliance Applications Supercomputing Innovation: Europe-collaboration, was born. Health, climate, quantum physics, or materials science. These are just some of the areas in which advanced computing will play a leading role as basis for scientific, industrial, and social development. To strategically position Europe Japan this area research, HANAMI, HPC Alliance Applications Supercomputing Innovation: Europe-collaboration, was born. Health, climate, quantum physics, or materials science. These are just some of the areas in which advanced computing will play a leading role as basis for scientific, industrial, and social development. To strategically position Europe Japan this area research, HANAMI, HPC Alliance Applications Supercomputing Innovation: Europe-collaboration, was born.
Through HANAMI, the EuroHPC seeks to promote advances in supercomputing by facilitating exchange of computing resources between Europe and Japan, this sense project will port existing code, test performance, viability applications run on alternative architecture. For purpose, European scientists be able access Fugaku supercomputer, a machine capable performing more than billion operations per second. Moreover, Japanese researchers have opportunity explore architectures. Through HANAMI, the EuroHPC seeks to promote advances in supercomputing by facilitating exchange of computing resources between Europe and Japan, this sense project will port existing code, test performance, viability applications run on alternative architecture. For purpose, European scientists be able access Fugaku supercomputer, a machine capable performing more than billion operations per second. Moreover, Japanese researchers have opportunity explore architectures.
This collaboration reflects a global trend towards international geopolitical alliances around computing, way for countries to assert their competitiveness. On the European side, objectives are also establish or strengthen technological and research partnerships with democracies - HANAMI being an example of this desire, favoring partnership that has been going on more than decade.
"This collaboration is a great opportunity to work with one of the leading countries in HPC on scientific and societal challenges share experiences efficient use most advanced computing architectures Japan Europe", said France Boillod-Cerneux, HANAMI's coordinator, emphasizing importance preparing software for future. She highlights, example, similarities between research centers relationship industry two territories — companies such as Eviden Fujitsu, example but also synergies around CPU architectures", while maintaining sovereignty concerning design development applications". "This collaboration is a great opportunity to work with one of the leading countries in HPC on scientific and societal challenges share experiences efficient use most advanced computing architectures Japan Europe", said France Boillod-Cerneux, HANAMI's coordinator, emphasizing importance preparing software for future. She highlights, example, similarities between research centers relationship industry two territories — companies such as Eviden Fujitsu, example but also synergies around CPU architectures", while maintaining sovereignty concerning design development applications".
"Since we already collaborate through innovation and research, HANAMI completes the scientific value chain: from observation instrument collection of real data, development applications to model observation, then execution on cutting-edge supercomputers," summarizes Boillod-Cerneux.
In addition, HANAMI will organize annual high-level symposia, bringing together members of the European and Japanese academic community to discuss topics such as biomedicine, materials science, and climate research. The aim will be to promote the development of science and encourage the community to engage within HANAMI. But the project doesn't stop there. For the future, there will be a road map to enable more sustainable and frequent collaborations between Europe and Japan, both in the academic and industrial spheres.
The project, led by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), in France, includes 14 European organizations: Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), from Spain, CINECA and National Research Council of Italy (CNR), from Italy, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), from France, IT Center for Science (CSC), from Finland, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ), Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), and the High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS/USTUTT), from Germany, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), from UK, Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), from Portugal, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), from Sweden, and University of Warsaw (UW), from Poland.
The project also brings together 10 Japanese institutions, namely, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Kyushu University, National Institute for Environmental Studies, National Institute for Materials Science, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), RIKEN, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TITECH), University of Tokyo, University of Tsukuba, and Yokohama University.
Contact: Dr. Edoardo di Napoli