HOST

High Performance Computing Service Centre

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The High Performance Computing as a Service is a new technological paradigm that emerged recently in the context of the hype of Cloud Computing. The Research Centre in Computer Science from West University of Timisoara, specialized in distributed and parallel computing as well as artificial intelligence, will adopt this paradigm to fulfil its aim to enter in the category of competitive European HPC providerss. The Centre had in the last five years an constantly grow in what concerns the participation in European collaborative projects as well as in what concerns the infrastructure capabilities, proving its capacity for improvements. The goal of this project is the transformation of the centre in the following new directions: to widen the research and development knowledge and experience of the team in HPC services and their applications; to raise the number of users of the services of the data centre; to achieve the status of EU-regional supercomputing centre and stakeholder in national and international e-Infrastructure initiatives; to become a centre for supporting innovation and regional development. The action plan to reach this goal includes strong collaborations with European stakeholders in HPC, upgrades of the e-infrastructure, employment of experienced researchers, as well as the organization of scientific events.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Efforts to strengthen a notable Romanian university's staff and facilities in the area of high-performance computing (HPC) are already bearing fruit.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Supercomputing, or HPC, is pushing the limits of computer technology to advance research and innovation in unprecedented ways. One emerging concept in this direction is high-performance computing as a service, an area in which the West University of Timisoara, Romania, is specialising.

Against this backdrop, the EU-funded project 'High performance computing service centre' (http://host.hpc.uvt.ro/ (HOST)) is working passionately on strengthening the academic institution in this up-and-coming field. Focusing initially on distributed and parallel computing, as well as on artificial intelligence, the institution has also recently built its name in HPC, giving rise to a host of pressures and challenges.

Its progress in the field, for example, is requiring more specialised personnel, better equipment, and enhanced promotion of its services in HPC and associated research and development (R & D).

To achieve its aims, the project is currently enhancing the university team's R & D knowledge in HPC. It is working on raising the number of users of the data centre services and on making the institution a national and EU-regional supercomputing centre.

This has involved hiring new researchers and constantly reinforcing knowledge of current staff members in HPC topics and applications, particularly with respect to scientific and commercial challenges. The new researchers hired specialise in topics such as cloud computing for HPC, scheduling algorithms and parallel computing in remote data processing.

The project team has also built new partnerships with other stakeholders in the field through bilateral visits, brokerage events, conferences, workshops, collaborative projects and training courses.

Overall, these steps have already begun increasing the new high-performance computer service centre's visibility in the European Research Area (ERA). It has led to strategic partnerships with other highly esteemed centres across Europe and has helped to strengthen R & D in the field. The knowledge economies in both Romania and the EU stand to benefit from this endeavour, as does the future of HPC across the continent.