March 4, 2024 — Over the last few years, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has been working towards taking European supercomputing to new historic heights by installing new machines capable of competing with their global counterparts: three pre-exascale, five petascale and two future exascale supercomputers.

Now, the current and future hosts of said supercomputers have combined forces to provide support services to selected users. The result is the EPICURE project (High-level specialized application support service in High-Performance Computing), featuring 16 partners from 14 countries and led by CSC – IT Center for Science.

Until now, the support provided was mainly focused on helpdesk support and resolution of operational issues. “At the moment, most of the help provided to users is short-term support which requires basic HPC skills and competences” says Emmanuel Ory, Development Manager at CSC – IT Center for Science and Coordinator of the project, “EPICURE will be ready to help users at an advanced technical level. Right now, all the different sites in Europe use different architectures, so users need to be able to move from one system to another very easily and seamlessly”.

The project will provide several services, including code enablement and scaling, performance analysis and benchmarking, code refactoring and code optimization. To this end, the project will draw on the experience and knowledge of all partners in HPC operations and support, using training activities and hackathons to share knowledge in porting, optimization, parallelization, and GPU programming. EPICURE will also include close collaboration with the different Competence Centers and Centers of Excellence.

Contact: Dr. Wolfgang Frings, [email protected].

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Source: Forschungszentrum Jülich