Partners

ATEME

2011-04-12T10:55:08+00:00

ATEME develops and commercializes AVC/H.264 video compression products for Broadcast and Broadband markets. Its Kyrion real-time video encoder family is used in more than 30 countries to provide High Definition television programs to IP-TV, Digital Terrestrial Television and Contribution customers. KFE, the ATEME file encoder product, offers its compression expertise to archiving, Video-On-Demand, and Internet applications.

Founded in 1991, ATEME is headquartered in Bièvres, France with subsidiaries in Japan, United States and Canada. Worldwide distribution is further realized by partners, distributors and major system integrators like Nokia Siemens Systems. With about 130 employees, including more than 80 engineering experts and researchers, ATEME develops all aspects of its video compression systems, including the key algorithms and their implementation that are the heart of our technology.

The generalization of High Definition contents creates a strong need for shorter encoding time. For this reason, ATEME encoders already make a heavy use of parallel processing using multi-core or multiprocessor architectures, but current solutions have bottlenecks that limit their efficiency in the context of video compression. Innovative methods, such as heterogeneous architectures, provide the hope of a significant performance enhancement. Thus, ATEME’s main interest in this project will be to gain experience from this new technology, and to evaluate the run-time improvements that can be achieved.

BMAT

2011-04-20T19:12:41+00:00

BMAT analyzes, indexes, and recognizes all the music in the world to provide software solutions for music analysis, recommendation and monitoring to the music industry and related industries. BMAT operates globally with more than 30 customers in Europe, America, Asia and Africa. Clients include companies such as Yamaha, Intel, Telefónica, EMI and Endemol. Its base is at Barcelona and has a representative in Mexico, and a network of agents in several countries. BMAT currently sells 3 lines of products based on technology covered by several international patents. The technology component of BMAT is very high and, the competitiveness of the sector requires not only have cutting edge technology to compete globally, it requires continuous improvement and also to be very agile and innovative. Thus, the level of investment in R&D is very high. BMAT currently invests about 35% of its turnover in R&D.

Bull SAS

2011-04-12T11:03:44+00:00

Bull designs and develops servers and software for an open environment, integrating the most advanced technologies. It brings to its customers its expertise and know-how to help them in the transformation of their information systems and to optimize their IT infrastructure and applications.

Bull is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication and industry sectors. Capitalizing on its wide experience, the Group has a thorough understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors, thus enabling it to efficiently advise and to accompany its customers. Its distribution network spreads to over 100 countries worldwide.

Bull’s offer is supported by its innovation capacity and its worldwide network of high-tech industrial partners. Bull accounts for over 100,000 server’s installations: 70,000 Unix servers, 45,000 Intel-based servers and about 1,500 GCOS servers.

Bull has great expertise in the control of complex IT infrastructures, combining computing power and data management capability. Bull has, for many years, provided solutions offering high performance and availability, and has strong competencies in the choice of architectures, which make it possible to optimise data management.

Bull is setting its sights on European leadership in HPC. So, the participation of Bull in this project which gathers most important European Supercomputing Centres and HPC Research Labs is a key element to leverage this research and transform it in products that will help to speed up research in many other domains such as nuclear fusion, avionics, life-science, etc., to considerably increase the performance of high demanding applications such as seismic imaging for oil industry or video encoding, etc. and to greatly facilitate modelling and numerical simulation to design new products in a more efficient manner.

CAPS Enterprise

2011-04-12T11:04:01+00:00

Founded in 2002 by members of an INRIA research team, CAPS develops and commercializes innovative software for high performance application tuning in the domains of HPC and embedded systems. CAPS offers a whole range of development tools and services enabling its customers' applications to optimize the performance of multicore processors used by the last generation hardware.

CAPS mission is in keeping with the innovative and fast moving multicore market and helps industries with high level HPC issues such as oil and gas, defence, finance and life sciences to allow their software developers to take the most of multicore processors while preserving their legacy source.

Built on over five years of advanced research and development, CAPS provides high quality and cost effective programming tools that leverage the computing power of evolving manycore heterogeneous platforms.

Among these environments: HMPP™ Workbench, a complete hybrid compiler with powerful data-parallel code generators based on OpenMP-like directives that simplifies the use of hardware accelerators in conventional general purpose applications.

CEA LIST

2011-04-12T11:19:44+00:00

CEA, the French Atomic Energy Commission, is a Research Institute in the fields of energy, defence, technologies of information and healthcare. Inside CEA, the LIST is the Lab of Research on software-intensive technologies (based near Paris at Saclay and Fontenay-aux-Roses); it is a key software systems and technology research centre working in three areas: embedded systems (architecture and design of systems, methods and facilities for software and system dependability, and intelligent vision systems); interactive systems (knowledge engineering, robotics, virtual reality and sensorial interfaces) and signal detection and processing (ionizing radiation metrology and instrumentation, optical fibre sensors and non-destructive testing). With the strong project-centred culture of its 450 researchers, the LIST performs research work in partnership with the major industrial players in the nuclear, automotive, aeronautical, defence and medical fields and thus investigates and develops innovative solutions corresponding to their requirements. The LIST, which is actively engaged in research work extending from conceptual design of systems to pre-industrial prototypes, contributes to the transfer of technology and encourages innovation.

Within the CEA LIST, The Embedded Real-Time System Foundations laboratory (LaSTRE) conducts studies in:

Highly parallel system architectures (multi/manycore);
Execution frameworks allowing to improve and control their performances and resource allocation;
Development tools (compilation, code generation, resource sizing, and analysis).

The LaSTRE current research interest, that meets the H4H objectives, deals with the crossfertilization of HPC and embedded technologies.

Dassault Aviation

2011-04-12T11:13:09+00:00

Dassault Aviation is one of the major players in the global aviation industry, with a presence in more than 70 countries across 5 continents, whose varied activities cover several areas of high technology. With 8300 people, Dassault Aviation's primary vocation is the design, development, production, sale and maintenance of aircrafts.

In 2007, the FALCON turnover represented 57% of the overall turnover. In total, Dassault Aviation has sold more than 2000 FALCON aircraft of all types over the last 40 years.

Research and Development activities employ nearly one quarter of the company's workforce. Fundamental and pre-competitive research is usually carried out in close co-operation with universities, research institutes and over industrial partners via a wide international network. Starting in the early 1970's, Dassault Aviation was an initiator in the usage of HPC for aircraft design. It has invested in the development of its own computer codes for simulation and continues to maintain them throughout the different "revolutions" in HPC. Its participation in this project is motivated by the following reasons:

To measure, and hopefully to control, the impact of the new heterogeneous parallel architectures on the source code of its simulation software. Both performance and portability will be the drivers in this task.
To investigate the capability of the new architectures to provide results in "real-time" for some desktop applications, a specific example of which is “Data Management for preliminary aircraft design”.

Data Lab

2011-04-20T19:15:57+00:00

DataLab was created in 1980 with the objective of designing and developing network systems for minicomputers from different manufacturers. It takes 30 years researching in the field of network architectures and the design and installation of infrastructure for Internet access. DataLab develops secure solutions for today, but with the aim of proper operation in the future. They have extensive experience in infrastructure design services for LAN and WAN networking. They are specialists in the field of software for capturing and remote data collection, clinical data collection, control of precision machinery and health care environment applications. The company is convinced of the importance of innovation and thus it has a strong commitment to guarantee competitiveness and business growth.

Digiteo/Scilab

2011-04-12T11:19:15+00:00

Scilab Software provides a powerful open platform for engineering and scientific applications. Scilab is developed and promoted by the Scilab Consortium, initiated by INRIA (the French Research Institute for Computer Science and Control). It is now hosted by DIGITEO (the French non profit Foundation for Research in Science and Technology of Information), INRIA is a founding member of. There are now 31 companies and academics members in the Scilab Consortium.

Nowadays, Scilab is the reference for Open Source Numerical Software Package. Scilab is currently used in educational and industrial environments around the world. There are more than 50,000 monthly remote loadings from Scilab Web site. About 100 countries download Scilab. Scilab includes hundreds of mathematical functions with complete on-line help. It has a high level programming language. It allows making 2-D and 3-D graphics, and animation. Scilab works under Windows 2000/XP/Vista, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X.

Efield

2011-04-12T11:14:22+00:00

Efield was started in 2006 based on the result from the General Electromagnetic Solvers project run by the Parallel and Scientific Computing Institute at KTH and Uppsala University. Efield develops and sells a comprehensive suite of software for large scale Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) problems with the same name as the company. Users are typically designers of complex products where electromagnetic properties are important. After only three years in operation we have a global user base. Important application areas are antenna design, antenna integration, microwave design, EMI/EMC interaction and radar cross section (RCS) analysis. Efield has solvers both in the frequency and the time domain integrated within a common user interface, and all the solvers run efficiently on parallel computers using OpenMP and/or MPI. Novel numerical methods based on domain decomposition and efficient hybrid techniques implemented in Efield makes it possible to solve more complex problems than ever before in CEM. Our role in the project is to be an end user with a deep knowledge of numerical methods for CEM and a clear need for more efficient development tools.

Fraunhofer SCAI

2011-04-12T11:20:23+00:00

The Fraunhofer institute for algorithms and scientific computing SCAI conducts development and research in the fields of numeric simulation, optimization, and bio-informatics. Projects connect inter-disciplinary methods from applied mathematics (especially numerical mathematics), computer science, and software technology with natural and engineering sciences. Traditionally, the focus is in the simulation of scientific-technical and industrial applications. Customers span industrial key sectors such as automotive, ship-building, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, textile, pharmaceutical, and chemical industry.

For Fraunhofer SCAI High Performance Computing is a strategic field of research and development. The institute offers core competences based on algorithmic and tools development for the efficient and high performing use of parallel systems. Software solutions developed by SCAI, especially for numeric applications, require and already make use of HPC-systems. The demand from SCAI’s customers in the direction of using novel and developing trends towards hardware and processor architectures is steadily increasing.

The challenges of the transition from traditional single core processors towards modern multicore and manycore architectures is to a great extend also to be found on the algorithmic side. Especially in this area, SCAI is able to make valuable contributions to the H4H consortium.