Articles

ELMFIRE: A Number Cruncher for Turbulence in Fusion Plasmas

katie.urquhart@ed.ac.uk (Katie Urquhart) — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:49:46 +0000

This article, written by our partners at Abo Akademi in Finland, explores the kinetic simulation code ELMFIRE for studying turbulence and transport in toroidal magnetized plasmas.

HemeLB within CRESTA: computational haemodynamics en route to patient-specific treatment planning using the exascale

katie.urquhart@ed.ac.uk (Katie Urquhart) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:56:30 +0000

Timm Krueger, from our partner at University College London, details in this article the use of HemeLB in computational haemodynamics using the exascale.

CRESTA Deliverables

katie.urquhart@ed.ac.uk (Katie Urquhart) — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:19:18 +0000

Here you can find a list of, and links to, the publicly available deliverables which have been produced during the course of the CRESTA project.

Year 1 Deliverables

Year 2 Deliverables

Preparing ECMWF’s Integrated Forecast System (IFS) weather forecast model for Exascale

katie.urquhart@ed.ac.uk (Katie Urquhart) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:39:02 +0000

This fascinating article, from our partners at ECMWF, TUD and Cray, introduces ECMWF's Intregrated Forecast System (IFS) and explains its part in the CRESTA project.

GPUs and the Science of Smooth Ice Cream

katie.urquhart@ed.ac.uk (Katie Urquhart) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:34:28 +0000

Case Study: Cray XK6 System

The Cray XK6 system helps scientists accelerate research into soft matter

Simulations based around fluid dynamics offer a powerful way to study, predict and ultimately improve the behavior of “soft matter” — materials such as paints, engine lubricants and even that tub of ice cream in your freezer.

Now, researchers are exploiting the Cray XK6TM supercomputer to accelerate their research. The system’s extreme scalability and GPU capability allows the efficient use of Ludwig at larger and larger scales.

European excellence in exascale research, showcased at SC11

l.smith@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Lorna Smith) — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:53:24 +0000

Meeting the challenges that computing at the exascale poses requires research and development on a global scale. Worldwide a number of exascale research programmes are now being created to tackle these challenges.

The European Union announced the start of its exascale research programme in October 2011 with the funding of three complementary Framework 7 research projects. The CRESTA, DEEP and Mont-Blanc projects, with a combined funding of 25 million, will each study different aspects of the exascale challenge using a co-design model spanning hardware, systemware and software applications.

This funding represents the first tranche in a sustained investment in exascale research by Europe.