SCIENCE
120 million core hours on CRAY XE6 Hermit allocated to 3 awardees of the PRACE 4th Call for Proposals
PRACE awarded 120 million core hours on the brand new CRAY XE6 Hermit supercomputer at HLRS@GCS in Germany to three successful projects submitted to the 4th PRACE Call for Proposals. Two awardees will be using their allocated core hours for research in the field of Engineering & Energy; the third one comes from the field of Chemistry and Materials.
Hermit was officially inaugurated as the new German national supercomputer in February 2012. Being one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, Hermit has a performance of more than 1 Petaflop/s (1 quadrillion computing operations per second) and will be upgraded to 4 to 5 Petaflop/s in 2013. Hermit is the first and largest system in Europe to use Cray XE6 Supercomputer technology and an AMD Interlagos-Processor. http://www.hlrs.de/systems/platform...
For the PRACE Project Access 4th Call for Proposals on Tier-0 systems, 1136 million core hours on 5 Tier-0 machines were made available by PRACE hosting members. The peer review process for the project applications allocated 1134 million core hours to 43 proposals. Out of those 43 proposals, three were granted access to Hermit.
Quantum Monte Carlo simulation of hydrogen at high pressure
Prof. Carlo Pierleoni of the University of L' Aquila (Italy) will lead a project in the field of Chemistry and Engineering. His collaborators on this project are the University of Roma "Sapienza" (Italy) the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain (USA), SISSA/ISAS (Italy) and CNRS/LPTMC (France). They will apply first principles simulation methods based on quantum Monte Carlo and density functional theory to elucidate the equilibrium properties and to explore superconductivity of hydrogen at high pressure. 24 million core hours on Hermit were allocated to this research.
Direct Numerical Simulation of the Flow in an Internal Combustion Engine
Prof. Dr. Ing. Wolfgang Schröder of RWTH Aachen University - Institute of Aerodynamics (Germany) will lead a project in the field of Engineering and Energy. The central objective of this research project within the TMFB cluster is to analyze the flow field under real engine conditions. 72.7 million core hours on Hermit were allocated to this research
Comprehensive ab initio simulations of turbulence in ITER-relevant fusion plasmas
Prof. Frank Jenko of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) - Tokamak Physics (Germany) will lead a project in the field of Engineering and Energy. His collaborators on this project are the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzwerland) and the Rechenzentrum der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Germany). Using the state-of-the-art plasma turbulence code GENE (http://gene.rzg.mpg.de/), comprehensive global computations of actual ASDEX Upgrade and JET discharges involving realistic MHD equilibria, finite-beta effects, collisions, etc. will be performed, using experimental data as input. 23.3 million core hour on Hermit were allocated to this research.
