BEYONDMOORE addresses the timely research challenge of solving the software side of the Post Moore crisis. The techno-economical model in computing, known as the Moore’s Law, has led to an exceptionally productive era for humanity and numerous scientific discoveries over the past 50+ years. However, due to the fundamental limits in chip manufacturing we are about to mark the end of Moore’s Law and enter a new era of computing where continued performance improvement will likely emerge from extreme heterogeneity. The new systems are expected to bring a diverse set of hardware accelerators and memory technologies.

BEYONDMOORE has an ambitious goal to develop a software framework that performs static and dynamic optimizations, issues accelerator-initiated data transfers, and reasons about parallel execution strategies that exploit both processor and memory heterogeneity.

Budget: 1.5 Million Euros

The Inno4scale project, titled aCG: Adaptive CG Algorithm on Large-Scale GPU Systems,supported by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking under the HORIZON-EUROPE-JU-2022-ALG-02 call, seeks to enhance the performance of High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications on current and future European supercomputers. Recognizing the need for a radical redesign of algorithms to leverage the massively parallel and heterogeneous processing capabilities of exascale and post-exascale computers, Inno4scale focuses on developing novel algorithms and their efficient implementation to solve computational problems deemed currently intractable. Through funding targeted innovation studies, Inno4scale aims to create proof-of-concept demonstrators for these groundbreaking algorithms, thereby ensuring the efficient utilization of EuroHPC JU’s supercomputing resources. In this context, Dr. Didem Unat of Koç University’s ParCore Lab, in collaboration with Simula Research Laboratory, has been awarded 200,000 Euros by the Inno4Scale grant. This award will fund a one-year research initiative focusing on advancing parallel programming of iterative solvers in accelerator-rich supercomputers, thereby contributing significantly to the overarching goals of the Inno4scale project.

Collaborators: Simula Research Laboratory

Budget: 200,000 Euros

The SparCity project aims at creating a supercomputing framework that will provide efficient algorithms and coherent tools specifically designed for maximising the performance and energy efficiency of sparse computations on emerging HPC systems, while also opening up new usage areas for sparse computations in data analytics and deep learning.

Overall, SparCity is a forward-looking project with a significant contribution to building Europe’s strengths in the application of HPC and related software tools, in the adoption of low-energy processing technologies, and in the development of advanced software and services for its citizens.