Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications

DEISA is a consortium of leading national supercomputing centres that currently deploys and operates a persistent, production quality, distributed supercomputing environment with continental scope. The main objective of this FP7 funded research infrastructure is to deliver a turnkey operational solution for a future persistent European HPC ecosystem, as suggested by ESFRI. This ecosystem will integrate national Tier-1 centres and the new powerful Tier-0 centres. A two-fold strategy is applied:

  • Consolidation of the existing DEISA infrastructure by guaranteeing the continuity of those activities and services that currently contribute to the effective support of world-leading computational science in Europe.

  • Evolution of this European infrastructure towards a robust and persistent European HPC ecosystem, by enhancing the existing services, by deploying new services including support for European Virtual Communities, and by cooperating and collaborating with new European initiatives, especially PRACE that will enable shared European PetaFlop/s supercomputer systems. DEISA2 focuses on the provisioning and operation of infrastructure services which will allow its users to work efficiently within a distributed high performance computing environment.

The DEISA Consortium contains eleven principal partners from seven European countries (Finland, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain and UK):

Partners and contact persons are:

item Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany,
The contact person is Achim Streit.
item Rechenzentrum Garching of the Max Planck Society (RZG), Germany (Project Coordinator)
item Leibniz Computing Centre of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germnay
item Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain
item Consorzio Interuniversitario (CINECA), Italy
item Finnish Information Technology Centre for Science (CSC), Finland
item European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), UK
item Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique (IDRIS-CNRS), France
item SARA Computing and Networking Services, The Netherlands
item Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), UK
item High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany

The project is funded by the European Union (EU) under Grant agreement number RI-222919. The grant period is 01.05.2008 until 30.04.2011.

More Information:
item DEISA2 (project website)
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