PetaOperations Par Seconde.

Coordinator : BULL
Call : FUI
Status : Finish
SYSTEM@TIC Working group : OCDS
Start date : 01/09/2007
Finish date : 01/08/ 2009
Duration :23 months
Total amount :12 754 K€
Aid amount :5 383 K€

Members involved in the project : BULL, CAPS ENTREPRISE, CEA DAM, CEA FONTENAY, CS, DASSAULT AVIATION, ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS, EDF R&D CLAMART, ESI GROUP, EURODECISION, IFP, IRISA, MEDIT, NEWPHENIX, RESONATE MP4, TELECOM SUD PARIS, UNIVERSITE DE VERSAILLES SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, UNIVERSITE EVRY VAL D'ESSONNE, UNIVERSITE PARIS SUD 11

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Design and develop data processing systems suited to the largest spectrum of High Performance Computing applications, targeting the Petaflops range. Anticipate the programming tools and features needed to obtain efficient applications in such systems.

PROGRESS BEYOND THE STATE OF THE ART

Hardware architecture, integration and performances > technological options > prototype.

Basic tools (OS, libraries,…) + performance improvement tools (threadsmanagement, adaptive optimisation).

Applications: simulation codes, management of large databases, multimedia data processing (life science, entertainment).

MAJOR PROJECT OUTCOMES

Products:
Optimization of codes from Dassault, ESI, Eurodecision, EDF; Bull petaflopic architecture
and tools; Astek codlet finder by CAPS.

Services:
VOD transcoding service offer by Resonate MP4; intensive computing services on demand by Bull; Creation of an Intensive computing Master by UVSQ and ECP; …

Publications:
About 50 publications, mainly written by the laboratories.

Experimentations:
Big Video challenge (finding 1video in 100,000 hours in 10 s; realtime video transcoding; crosslanguage research of multimedia content; protein visualisation.

Job creation:
About 30 jobs created, on which 3: in start-up Infinite Web Media.

Business creation:
Extrem computing Business unit created by Bull for the HPC market.