PDC’s HPC partner organisations

CSC

The CSC - IT Center for Science (CSC, www.csc.fi ) is a centre of expertise in information technology in Finland. CSC provides information and communication technology (ICT) expert services for higher education institutions, research institutes, culture, public administration and enterprises. For example, CSC hosts the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) pre-exascale system known as LUMI ( www.lumi-supercomputer.eu ).

For questions about PDC’s activities in colaboration with CSC, please contact:

ENCCS

The EuroCC National Competence Center Sweden (ENCCS, enccs.se)  is the Swedish national centre that helps researchers from industry, public administration and academia to obtain access to the fastest European supercomputers access and provides training to help researchers use those machines.

For questions about PDC’s activities in collaboration with ENCCS, please contact:

Energy Efficiency for HPC Working Group

The Energy Efficiency for HPC Working Group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (EE HPC WG, eehpcwg.llnl.gov ) is a group that encourages the implementation of energy conservation measures and energy efficient design in high-performance computing (HPC) to reduce expenditure for and curb the environmental impact of HPC centres.

For questions about PDC’s activities within this group, please contact:

ETP4HPC

The European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing (ETP4HPC, www.etp4hpc.eu ) is a private, industry-led non-profit association that was established in 2012 to guide the development of the European advanced computing ecosystem. Its main mission is to promote European HPC research and innovation in order to maximise the economic and societal benefit of HPC for European research, industry and citizens.

To do this, ETP4HPC produces a roadmap or Strategic Research Agenda (SRA), which is updated each year, to support decision makers and other relevant stakeholders within the HPC field to plan their own technology investments and focus areas by predicting trends and future research areas of major relevance within advanced computing and related fields. For example, the SRA is used by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) to define the contents of their Technology Work Programmes. ETP4HPC is also a private member of the EuroHPC JU and has several representatives in their Research and Innovation Advisory Group (RIAG) who contribute to planning the EuroHPC JU Technology Work Programmes.

KTH is one of the many members of ETP4HPC and is represented within the organisation by PDC. KTH/PDC has been a member of ETP4HPC since 2013, and has participated in research areas involving mathematics and algorithms, as well as contributing PDC’s expertise and experience to ETP4HPC’s efforts involving energy efficiency and sustainability.

For questions about PDC’s activities within ETP4HPC, please contact:

EuroHPC

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is a joint initiative between the EU, European countries and private partners to develop a world class supercomputing ecosystem in Europe. Sweden has been a member of EuroHPC since early 2019 and is represented by the Swedish Research Council (VR). As well as funding petascale, pre-exascale and exascale systems around Europe, EuroHPC funds many centres of excellence (CoEs), including three that are lead by PDC: the BioExcel Centre of Excellence for Biomolecular Research, the Centre of Excellence for Exascale CFD (CEEC) and the Plasma Exascale-Performance Simulation Centre of Excellence (Plasma-PEPSC). PDC is also involved with another EuroHPC CoE, the EXCELLERAT Centre of Excellence for Engineering Applications, and hosts the Swedish member of the support team for the EuroHPC pre-exascale system LUMI, which is sited in Finland.

For questions about PDC’s activities within EuroHPC, please contact:

NAISS

The National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS, www.naiss.se ) is an infrastructure organisation that provides high-performance computing and storage resources, as well as data services, for academic researchers in Sweden. As an example, the Dardel system which is hosted at PDC is a NAISS system.

Support for researchers who use these resources is provided through partnership agreements between NAISS and various Swedish universities. NAISS itself is hosted by Linköping University but acts independently with a national perspective and responsibility. The Swedish universities collaborating with NAISS to provide support are often referred to as branches of NAISS in this context.

For questions about PDC’s activities within NAISS, please contact: