Fortissimo – Experiments and Open Calls

Guy Lonsdale

scapos AG

The Fortissimo Project

• Building a Cloud of HPC Resources to solve SMEs’ business challenges

• One of the I4MS* projects within the “Factories of the Future” initiative

• Complementing generic SME initiatives in EC FP7 Programme - specific support to deliver economic growth through modelling and simulation

• Focus on problem solving – not technology development

• Brings together all of the players in a marketplace

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(*) ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs

Fortissimo – scale & structure

• €22m costs, €16m EC funding, 45 partners growing to 90+ over the 3 year duration

• 20 initial “Experiments” with SMEs

• Each experiment has 2-4 partners

• Funding of ~€250,000 / experiment

• 2 Open Calls for proposals

• First opening in November 2013

• Second opening May 2014

• Optimised financial and legal structure to assist SMEs

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End user

HPC Service

Provider

Independent

Software Vendor

Research Software Provider

Application

Expert

HPC Expert

Examples of Experiments

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Exp. 6: Reducing energy and emissions using Cloud HPC for urban planning

SME: Integrated Environmental Solutions Ltd

Using HPC to move from modelling individual buildings to urban scale

Exp. 18: Cloud-based CFD simulation for SMEs

SME: Koenigsegg AB

World leading hypercar manufacturer

Demonstrating faster, cheaper, detailed CFD modelling

The current “cloud” of experiments

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….aerodynamics of light aircraft

…continuous casting

..design of metal flanges

…high pressure vessels

.. Multiphysics simulation .. CFD … automotive design

… tools for urban planning

… routing architecture optimisation..

.. correlation .. simulation & tests for mechatronics

… air-quality over cities

… risers, moorings and flowlines ... low-pressure

die-casting …

… CFD for turbomachinery

… structural crash tests … eolian snow transport for civil engineering …

… commercial computational chemistry

… molecular simulation for industrial chemical engineering

.. CO2 emission prediction for automotive engines

Information available at: www.fortissimo-project.eu/experiments

1st Open Call - Objectives

• Competitive call for HPC-Cloud-based Application Experiments for the FORTISSIMO project

• Target: the expansion of the application experiments for engineering and manufacturing simulation services currently being carried out within Fortissimo

• Priority given to proposals complementing existing Fortissimo experiments & which address the needs of engineering and manufacturing SMEs.

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Open Call Partnering

• Experiments will employ the Fortissimo HPC infrastructure by using the HPC Centres already involved in the project.

• Proposed experiments should include all participants necessary for the experiment, which may include application/HPC experts or ISVs already included within the Fortissimo consortium.

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www.fortissimo-project.eu/calls/partnering

Key Call Details

Proposals: (max.) 10-page documents, in English,

electronic submission

Submission Deadline: 2nd January, 2014, at 17:00

Brussels local time

Expected duration of participation: 1st July 2014 to

31st December 2015

Total indicative funding available for new activities:

5,000,000 €

Maximum funding request per proposal: 250,000 €

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