HPC networks

PRACE Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe

Project aims to create a pan-European service supercomputing service to the scientific community of the EU

The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, PRACE, is the only research infrastructure persistent pan-european high performance computing (HPC).

PRACE provides Europe for science systems worldwide and strengthens the scientific and industrial competitiveness of Europe.

Service keeps a pan-european HPC is one of 6 leading systems (Tier-0) perfectly integrated in the European environment of high performance computing. Each system provides computing power of several Petaflop/s (one quadrillion operations per second).

PRACE RI is an international non-profit organization based in Brussels. The association is called “Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe AISBL” and has 19 members from Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom. Other European states are also invited to join.

The first production system is a petaflop/s IBM Blue Gene /P (JUGENE) that is installed at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.

The second production system is a 16 Petaflop/s Bull system called CURIE which is placed near Paris and is operated in a new supercomputing center, the TGCC, Très Grand Centre de Calcul, financed by CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives). PRACE (HPC) started with JUGENE services, a MPP system, to significantly increase the coverage of all the scientific needs of European researchers.

EGI European Grid Initiative

This is a network of State Grid initiative that connects the resources of 42 countries.

Its aim is to satisfy the requirements of different scientific communities within the European Research Area (ERA), allowing the use of distributed computing resources for all these countries through Internet, so that, using only the computer can access to a virtually unlimited computing power.

Infrastructure operates on the Enabling Grids for E- science (EGEE), with a software for monitoring and accounting developed by CESGA.

EGI.eu is a foundation established under Dutch law to create and mantain a pan-European Grid infraestructure (EGI), in collaboration with National Grid Initiatives (NGI) and international research organizations in Europe (Eiros), to ensure the availability of long within a generic infrastructure for all European research communities and international partners.

Its goal is to provide access to computing resources for European researchers in all fields of science.

Its role in coordinating network activities EGI.eu be:

• Using an integrated production grid infrastructure that perfectly federate resources from suppliers in Europe.
• To coordinate community support research using coordinated by the European infrastructure EGI.eu.
• Working with software vendors in Europe and around the world to deliver innovative software solutions and high quality that provide the capacity required by the user communities.
• To ensure the development of EGI.eu through coordination and participation in research projects that provide innovation to the European infrastructures for distributed computing. (CDIS).

DEISA Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications

It is a consortium of leading supercomputing centers in their respective countries which aims to support the most advanced computer science world from Europe.

Their prospects are set to provide an operational solution for the European supercomputing environment, based on a kind of grid system which interconnect supercomputing resources better equipped centers of the continent, reaching an enormous computing power to serve the scientific and industrial community.

DEISA deploys and operates a quality production, throwing the field of supercomputing with continental scope. It aims to provide a turnkey solution for a future European environment of high performance and extending the European collaborative environment in the field of supercomputing.

DEISA is making easy the way for the deployment and operation of a persistent cooperation within the European high performace environment.

IBERGRID

This is a joint initiative of the goverments of Spain and Portugal launched in 2007 which aims to promote and implement a common Iberian researching.

It includes activities designed to enhance the movility of researchers, to develop research co-participative projects by scientifics of both countries and sharing infrastructures high performance calculation.

In this initiative participate by Spain almost all members of the science network called (e-science), being open by Portugal for all academic and scientific community scientific in Portugal.