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Abstract

In EU FP7, the DEISA consortium continues with the DEISA2 project to support and develop a European distributed high performance computing infrastructure by consolidating the existing DEISA infrastructure and extending its collaborative environment for capability computing and data management. The resulting infrastructure is unmatched world-wide in its heterogeneity and complexity, enabling the operation of a powerful Supercomputing Grid built on top of national services, facilitating Europe’s ability to undertake world-leading computational science research. DEISA has already proved its relevance for advancing computational sciences in leading scientific and industrial disciplines within Europe and has paved the way towards the deployment of a cooperative European HPC ecosystem. The existing infrastructure is based on the tight coupling of eleven leading national supercomputing centres, using dedicated network interconnections of GÉANT2 and the NRENs.

In DEISA2, activities and services relevant for Applications Enabling, Operation, and Technologies are continued and enhanced, as these are indispensable for the effective support of computational sciences in the area of supercomputing. The service provisioning model is extended from one that supports a single project to one supporting Virtual European Communities. Collaborative activities will be carried out with other important international initiatives. The close cooperation with the PRACE project is of strategic importance.

About the speaker

Stefan Heinzel, computer scientist with a diploma from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), entered the computer science department of the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) in 1979 for the development of operating systems.1984 he changed to the Garching Computing Centre (RZG) of the Max Planck Society for the development of front/end systems for HPC systems. During a research stay at SLAC he developed an infrastructure for high energy physics experiments as in CERN and SLAC. 1993 he became director of RZG. Since 2006 he additionally became technical director of the German High Performance Computing Centre for Climate- and Earth System Research. Since 2008 he is coordinating the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA2) project in the European FP7.