1.
The European Centre of
Excellence on Engineering
and its collaboration potentials with the EOSC-hub
Dr.-Ing. Bastian Koller, Coordinator of the EXCELLERAT project
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2.
The Vision!
European
Excellence
Industrial Use
Cases
Optimzation
of
Applications
towards
Exascale
Going beyond the „classic“ consortium approach!
Going beyond a traditional project approach!
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3.
Principle elements to establish a Centre of
Excellence
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4.
Reference Applications
• Nek5000 (Open Source (BSD))
• Based on the spectral element method
• Application Area: Aerospace, Automotive, Energy, Renewables
• Alya (In-House Development BSC)
• Parallel multi-physics / multi-scale simulation code featuring hybrid
parallelization
• Application Area: Multiphysics, Aerospace, Automotive, Marine
• AVBP (CERFACS / IFPEN Distributed for research proposals only)
• parallel CFD
• Aerospace, Automotive, Combustion, Compressible Two-Phases Flows
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5.
Reference Applications
• Fluidity (Imperial College London - Open Source (LGPL))
• General purpose, multiphase computational fluid dynamics code
• Green energy, Environmental modelling
• FEniCS (Open Source (LGPLv3/LGPLv2))
• Solving partial differential equations
• Multiphysics, Aerospace, Automotive, Energy, Renewable
• FLUCS (DLR, In house code, Usage under Agreement)
• CFD solver
• Aerospace
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6.
Analysis and continuous evolution of reference
applications:
Alya, AVBP, FEniCS, FLUCS, Fluidity, NEK5000
• Node Level Performance
Optimization
• System-Level
Performance
Optimization
• Advanced Meshing
• Data Handling
• …
• Co-Design
• Visualization
• Data Analytics
• Data Management
Implementation of an Operational Centre of Excellence
How do we do it?
• Market Assessment
• Price tag Elaboration
• IPR Management
• Extension of Use
Cases
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7.
„Side“ Services/Aspects
• Training in a European Dimension
• Based on existing portfolios of participants
• Gap-filling based on needs
• Enhanced Data Management
• Not only data handling during simulation, but also adressing aspects such as
secured data transfer
• Setting up EXCELLERAT as a single access
point
• Portal planned as single entry
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8.
• Introducing the concept of Interest Groups
• Industrial End Users, Code Developers/ISVs, Scientific Experts, Technology
Providers
• Bringing together the project participants and external entities
• First hand access of Interest Group Members to EXCELLERAT results
• F2F workshops planned
• Early feedback from community members, potential customers
• Setup of protected IP-bubbles
• Ideally spin-off activities launched during the projects runtime
Increasing Impact
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9.
Collaboration towards impact
• Close Collaboration with R&D Developments
• FET-HPC activities in Europe
• HPC activities world wide
• Long-Term: Going beyond limits bei enabling services based on fusion
of HPC, Data Analytics, Machine Learning….
• Potential Collaboration with EOSC-Hub on
• provisioning of new services
• research data management
• use of existing services
• …
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10.
Thank you
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