Institute for Software Technology and Parallel Systems (
VIP
)/
European Centre of Excellence for Parallel Computing (
VCPC
) at the University
of Vienna
The Institute for Software Technology and Parallel Systems has
achieved international recognition in the field of software for HMPs.
Its research focusses on the design and development of languages,
software tools, and programming environments aimed at making parallel
machines accessible to a broad range of users in science and industry.
The VIP, together with the associated VCPC, is the leading
research institution for compiler technology for HMPs
within Europe.
The VIP/VCPC will manage the project, provide VFCS, and develop a detailed
specification of HPF+. VFCS will be extended by providing a prototype
implementation of HPF+.
The Meiko CS-2 system of the VCPC will be a project platform.
Engineering System International SA ( ESI)
ESI SA is a member of the ESI Group of companies, a software house and
consulting group which is a worldwide market leader in the field of
Virtual Predictive Testing of Industrial Prototypes for simulation
based design activities.
The ESI Group offers a family of software products (PAM-SYSTEM) ranging from
Vehicle Crashworthiness and Stamping Simulation to Computational Fluid
Dynamics and Coupled Fluid/Structure applications.
ESI will assess the feasibility of a high-level language approach as the future
programming platform for its codes on HMPs, in particular PAM-CRASH and
PAM-STAMP. A sequence of ESI kernels with increasing complexity of data
structures and data accesses (most importantly, levels of indirection) will
be migrated to HPF+, and the results of the porting effort will be
compared to conventional approaches.
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (
ECMWF
)
The European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts is an international
organization supported by 18 European states. The Centre's principal objectives
are: the development of numerical methods for medium range weather forecasting;
the preparation of medium range weather forecasts for distribution to
the meteorological services of its member states; scientific and
technical research directed to the improvement of these forecasts; and
the collection and storage of appropriate meteorological data.
ECMWF will analyze the requirements for parallelization
of IFS and other weather codes on an HPF-like basis,
migrate kernels of increasing complexity to HPF+,
and evaluate this approach
with respect to the message passing approach.
N.A Software is a small UK company based in Liverpool.
It carries out technical research and development on a consultancy
basis, notably for the UK MoD; and develops and markets an innovative
range of Fortran90 tools developed initially within several Esprit
and UK-funded projects.
NA Software will provide the HPF Mapper and Fortran 90 toolset, including
the LOFT90 converter and vectorizer.
NAS will work actively with Vienna in developing the specification of HPF+ and
associated compiler technology. It will also import into a pre-prototype
enhanced HPF
compiler such techniques as prove to be effective. Outside the project NAS
will, as part of the exploitation of the results, modify the enhanced compiler
to HPF-2 standards as this standard emerges.
The qualification of the University of Pavia (Dipartimento di
Informatica e Sistemistica) in the framework of performance evaluation
and workload characterization of parallel systems derives from many years of
activities in these fields. In particular, the University of Pavia has been
involved in many international and Italian projects on this topic.
The University of Pavia will provide a prototype of a tool (MEDEA)
for workload characterization and performance evaluation of parallel
programs. This tool will be enhanced and customized for the analysis of
the HPF+ benchmark programs. The evaluation of these benchmarks will be
based on the extended MEDEA.
Associated
AVL LIST GmbH was founded in 1948 by Professor Dr. Hans List to
conduct engine research and design.
Development work covers all activities from
improving existing engines to design and testing of entire engine
families, including petrol, diesel and gas engines. AVL's proprietary
computer programs and measurement methods enhance the engineering
creativity which characterizes the company's leadership in the
highly competitive international market.
AVL will analyze the requirements for parallelization of
the FIRE code on an HPF-like basis, migrate kernels of FIRE to
HPF+, and participate in the evaluation efforts.
Cooperation
In the period 1994-5, NEC Europe Ltd. founded two research centres in
Germany, referred to as the C&C Research Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd.
(CCRLE): in 1994 located at GMD's TechnoPark in Sankt Augustin (CCRLE/Bonn);
in 1995 located in Berlin (CCRLE/Berlin).
CCRLE/Bonn aims to contribute to the advance of scientific computation
in Europe and to assist NEC in developing its relations with various European
research centres and institutions. The range of activities of the laboratory
includes: scientific and industrial applications; new algorithms and
technologies (including visualization) for parallel processing; programming
interfaces and standards.
Within the project NEC CCRLE (Bonn) collaborates with ESI to investigate the
use of the High Performance Fortran programming paradigm for unstructured
Finite-Element codes, and in particular for their market leading
crashworthiness simulation code PAM-CRASH.
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