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HPC BIG DATA ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CROSS STACK PLATFORM TOWARDS EXASCALE

Project description

HPC supporting applications in aeronautics, climate and weather, and energy domains

To stay ahead in addressing industrial, technological and scientific challenges and keep up with the fast pace at which data are generated by scientific experiments and large simulations (i.e. multiphysics, climate and weather predictions), the EU is investing in supercomputers and technologies. The EU-funded ACROSS project will co-design and develop a high-performance computing (HPC), big data (BD) and artificial intelligence (AI) convergent platform, supporting applications in the aeronautics, climate and weather, and energy domains. ACROSS will combine traditional HPC techniques with AI (ML/DL) and BD analytic techniques to enhance the application test case outcomes. ACROSS will promote cooperation with other EU initiatives and future EuroHPC projects to foster the adoption of exascale-level computing among test case domain stakeholders.

Objective

Supercomputers have been extensively used to solve complex scientific and engineering problems, boosting the capability to design more efficient systems. The pace at which data are generated by scientific experiments and large simulations (e.g. multiphysics, climate, weather forecast, etc.) poses new challenges in terms of capability of efficiently and effectively analysing massive data sets. Artificial Intelligence, and more specifically Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) recently gained momentum for boosting simulations’ speed. ML/DL techniques are part of simulation processes, used to early detect patterns of interests from less accurate simulation results. To address these challenges, the ACROSS project will co-design and develop an HPC, BD, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) convergent platform, supporting applications in the Aeronautics, Climate and Weather, and Energy domains. To this end, ACROSS will leverage on next generation of pre-exascale infrastructures, still being ready for exascale systems, and on effective mechanisms to easily describe and manage complex workflows in these three domains. Energy efficiency will be achieved by massive use of specialized hardware accelerators, monitoring running systems and applying smart mechanisms of scheduling jobs. ACROSS will combine traditional HPC techniques with AI (specifically ML/DL) and BD analytic techniques to enhance the application test case outcomes (e.g. improve the existing operational system for global numerical weather prediction, climate simulations, develop an environment for user-defined in-situ data processing, improve and innovate the existing turbine aero design system, speed up the design process, etc.). The performance of ML/DL will be accelerated by using dedicated hardware devices. ACROSS will promote cooperation with other EU initiatives (e.g. BDVA, EPI) and future EuroHPC projects to foster the adoption of exascale-level computing among test case domain stakeholders.

Coordinator

FONDAZIONE LINKS - LEADING INNOVATION & KNOWLEDGE FOR SOCIETY
Net EU contribution
€ 428 750,00
Address
VIA PIER CARLO BOGGIO 61
10138 Torino
Italy

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Region
Nord-Ovest Piemonte Torino
Activity type
Research Organisations
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Total cost
€ 857 500,00

Participants (16)