Description du projet
De nouvelles fonctionnalités renforcent le logiciel de simulation atomistique SIESTA
SIMUNE ATOMISTICS SL est une entreprise de fabrication de logiciels basée en Espagne qui produit des logiciels scientifiques mettant en œuvre un code avancé en vue d’une utilisation simplifiée dans des applications industrielles. Le projet SIESTA-PRO, financé par l’UE, permettra à l’entreprise d’améliorer SIESTA – un programme open source bien connu qui réalise des calculs de structures électroniques efficaces ainsi que des simulations de la dynamique moléculaire ab initio – et d’y ajouter de nouvelles fonctionnalités. Ce programme amélioré pourra analyser efficacement de vastes systèmes (jusqu’à plusieurs milliers d’atomes) bien plus rapidement que ses solutions concurrentes, réduisant ainsi le délai de commercialisation de nouveaux matériaux.
Objectif
"The business opportunity detected is that currently no company offers professional support for an ""open source"" code nor a code capable of covering all the needs of the industrial field, with support, guarantee and usability comparable or even better than existing commercial alternative software. SIMUNE takes as a starting point a code developed by the founders of SIMUNE and popular in the scientific community (SIESTA), with the aim of adding improvements and functionalities and as consequence make it competitive versus any existing code right now in the market. The advantages that the solution brings to the customers are:
• Save costs thanks to the efficiency of the code (3/4 times faster than existing solutions)
• Capable of analysing large systems (up to thousands of atoms), which is innovative in the market
• Reduce the time to market of new materials, accelerating their development stage;
• Understanding of the “why” of the results of the measurements (testing) and gives prediction of (next steps)
• To analyze, explore and characterize properties of materials that by other means would not be possible
• To study complex physical and chemical phenomena simplifying them in fundamental parts, treatable by computer simulations
SIMUNE proposes SIESTA-PRO in order to take the use of specialised expertise, highly recognised SIESTA code and all the powerful computational tools a step closer to the market. SIMUNE will start with three niches: Chemicals (e.g. BASF), Electronics (e.g. INFINEON) and Bioscience (e.g. MERCK) market niches. This will have a direct impact in how advanced material industry perform new material developments, which impacts the global economy, and at the same time will lead SIMUNE to become the worldwide reference
During the Phase 1, a feasibility assessment will be conducted by having three independent channels of information gathering and analysis. With the results and data gathered in this study a Business Innovation Plan will be ellaborated."
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
20018 Donostia San Sebastian
Espagne
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.