In SPECTRUM, FZJ contributes as HPC, HTC, Quantum Computing Systems Provider and contact to extended scientific domains ecosystems.
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (FZJ) contributes via its Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) to this project. JSC provides leading-edge supercomputer resources, IT tools, methods, and know-how for researchers at FZJ, and German and European projects on Tier-1 and Tier-0 levels. It provides expert advice in mathematical methods, performance analysis, visualisation, and community-oriented research and support (through its Simulation & Data Labs), working with scientists from FZJ and Europe. Especially the latter will foster the application of the strategy and analyses of SPECTRUM to additional communities.
JSC is involved, to a large extent as founder or co-founder, in numerous (inter)national research collaborations including PRACE, ETP4HPC, BDEC, the Human Brain flagship and several EU CoEs. JSC’s research focuses on technology developments with industrial and academic partners, e.g., in the Exascale Labs with NVIDIA and ARM, in EuroHPC R&D HPC projects, e.g. the DEEP and SEA project series as well as in three EuroHPC Pilot Projects. This involves exploration of new architectures, innovative networks, accelerators, neuromorphic computing, and Quantum computing.
R&D in federated systems and infrastructures specifically designed to support the secure, efficient and sustainable management, integration and analysis of Big Scientific Data on Tier-1 and Tier-0 level, is conducted. Furthermore, JSC will be the hosting site for the first EU Exascale system JUPITER. To summarise, JSC brings unmatched background and experience in HPC technologies and their operation, expertise in the co-design and development of future technologies relevant for prospective future European RI landscapes and established contacts to many European scientific communities into the consortium.
