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The Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) is a central scientific institution of the Dresden University of Technology. With its interdisciplinary orientation it supports other faculties and institutions in their research and education. Support and consulting is provided to users from Saxonian universities, surrounding research institutes like Max Planck Society and industrial partners. Beyond the support of local users ZIH cooperates with other HPC centers in Germany and world-wide and is an established competence center for parallel computing and software tools. For many of the current HPC architectures, ZIH provides optimization and tool support. The center is involved in the following research areas: Software tools for parallel programming, architecture and performance evaluation, and optimization; scheduling and load balancing concepts on parallel systems (homogeneous as well as heterogeneous), innovative methods for computing; algorithms and methods for the modelling of biological processes, and software tools for grid computing.
ZIH's interest in the ParMa project concerns in further development and completion of their performance and analysis tools for hybrid, multithreaded and I/O bound applications.
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Forschungszentrum Jülich, one of the 15 Helmholtz research centres in Germany, is the largest federal research centre in Germany. It is a centre for multidisciplinary research. Within the research centre, Zentralinstitut für Angewandte Mathematik (ZAM; Central Institute for Applied Mathematics) is responsible for planning, installation, management, and operation of the central computer systems and the centre-wide computer networks and communications systems. ZAM runs one of the most powerful scientific computer centres in Europe, currently hosting a 16384 processor IBM BlueGene/L system, a 1312 processor IBM Power4 p690+ cluster, and a 120 processor Cray XD1 system. The computer systems are available for research groups within the centre as well as to outside German and European academic researchers through the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (a joint collaboration with DESY, Berlin). ZAM's tasks determine the R&D work on scientific computing, on the methodological advancement of supercomputing, and the operation of the supercomputer system as a scientific large-scale device together with the information technology infrastructure for mass data, broadband communication, Grid computing, and multimedia.
Our focal point in this project is the research on tools for parallel programming. We have two decades of experience in developing and using performance analysis tools for parallel and distributed applications. With our KOJAK framework we are the world-leading experts on automatic trace-based performance analysis toolsets. Our work is going beyond research prototypes as we use our tools in our daily work optimising real-world applications of users running on the computer systems of our national computing centre.
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RECOM Services is a spin-off from the “Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Dampf-kesselwesen“ (IVD) at Stuttgart University in Germany. Since 1999 RECOM Services applies 3D-combustion modelling for minimising operating costs and technical risks in industrial furnaces and boilers. The company offers these engineering services to the power and process industry. The working areas include: Emission Control (NOx, SO2, LOI/Unburned), Slagging and Fouling, Water Wall Wastage due to Corrosion, Fuel Mixing (Coal, Oil, Gas), Co-Firing of Secondary Fuels (Sewage Sludge, Wood, etc.).
RECOM Services is working worldwide with partner companies in the U.S. (Reaction Engineering International - REI) and China (Shanghai Haotong Energy Technology Ltd.). The 3D-combustion simulation code RECOM-AIOLOS, applied by RECOM and jointly developed with the Research Group at IVD, is a reliable, fast, and cost-effective tool for design optimisation and problem solving in the power and process industry.
Furthermore, RECOM Services has successfully concluded a 3-Year R&D project in 2004, which was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) within the Vision 21 Programme because of RECOMs unique modelling capabilities for industrial scale boilers.
For this particular project, RECOM Services is interested in porting the RECOM-AIOLOS application to the hard- and software basis developed within the project. As an outcome of the project it is expected to enlarge the applicability of the 3D-combustion modelling software RECOM-AIOLOS to a new cost-effective hardware and to access the newly developed parallel programming methods and tools.
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GWT is one on the leading research institutions of its kind. It conducts commissioned research for industry and the public sector, develops new products and technologies and provides a comprehensive service for all kinds of innovations. The research unit “Tools for High Performance Computing” is part of the area of electrical engineering / information technology/ computer science. Since 1998, several national and international projects have been realized within this unit. GWT is marketing the performance analysis tools Vampir and is responsible for product development, quality assurance, marketing and sales.
In the context of the ParMA project GWT will improve these tools and extend their usage to modern computers with multi-core CPUs. GWT also wants to broaden its experiences and knowledge in performance analysis and parallel program optimisation support for applications.
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Originally dedicated to offering customer service for the automotive industry in the fields of crash analysis and forming simulation, GNS has now become a competent partner in many engineering analysis applications like static and dynamic analyses, modal and fatigue analyses or CFD. Owing to the expertise and ambition of over 60 engineering analysis experts, GNS is providing services such as mesh generation for complex shell and solid structures, analysis using state-of-the-art finite element codes, and development of customized software tools like user interfaces, graphic post processing, documentation software etc. GNS Software products are developed by engineering analysts and software specialists with a deep insight in the requirements of numerical simulation and years of practical experience in solving sophisticated engineering problems.
Adopting the aspired results of the ParMA project in INDEED/FETI-INDEED, a substantial enhancement concerning parallel program development and run-time performance are expected. Even a remarkable gain in the result quality of the simulated processes will be observed, because this project will make it possible to consider more realistic and sophisticated models that take into account for example the tool deformations, the thermal interaction between workpiece and dies and even automatic geometry optimisation.
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Since 1988, it has been the aim of MAGMA to provide a new insight into the casting process through simulation and thereby to support process optimization in all areas of the process chain, including casting development, production and utilization. Today, MAGMA GmbH in Aachen is the leading partner of the casting design and manufacturing industry. The company proves that challenges in the casting process can be successfully met when competent expertise is accompanied by powerful software and professional support. With more than 900 MAGMA customers worldwide and around 110 employees, predominantly engineers, at six locations (Aachen, Chicago, São Paulo, Singapore, Seoul and Hellebæk), MAGMA guarantees a practical and continuous development of its products and services as well as an effective support for its customers. The worldwide development of technologies and the industrial acceptance of casting process simulation are strongly coupled with the developments at MAGMA, its subsidiary companies, and its R&D partners. Concerning casting design and process optimization, MAGMA develops future technologies for all types of casting processes and materials and provides this know-how to component designers, manufacturers and customers in the form of reliable software and services. MAGMASOFT® is applied worldwide for the simulation of casting processes, including the simulation of the filling process, the solidification and cooling process, of mechanical properties, thermal stresses and distortions of castings for all metallic materials.
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The German Federal High Performance Computing Centre HLRS is a scientific institution of the University Stuttgart and hosts one of the largest European supercomputer resources, which are accessible both to academic users and industry. In 2005, it purchased with the NEC SX8 the second largest vector machine besides the Earth Simulator in Japan. The high performance computers acquired by HLRS together with computers from industry are operated by hww GmbH, a company 50% publicly (University Stuttgart, University Karlsruhe, local state) and 50% industry owned (40% T-Systems, 10% Porsche). The same resources are thus accessible to industry and academia. HLRS is a national supercomputing centre providing support to users all over Germany.
The main task of a high performance computing centre is to provide services and support to its users. Services comprise the efficient usage of the HPC resources through all phases of problem handling. Therefore HLRS employs a group of specialists that advise users to efficiently use the offered hardware and software resources. Specialists are also offering expertise in different application domains.
HLRS has long experience in the development of parallel tools and libraries in the field of shared and distributed programming and Grid computing, such as the MPI-correctness tool MARMOT, the metacomputing library PACX-MPI, as well as being a partner in the Open MPI project. Through the close collaboration with users of the supercomputing resources, experience with user-code has been gained and extended in several national and European projects.
Together with its partners in this project, HLRS aims at providing a competitive software development environment for complex applications on future platforms.
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