Upload
cesga-foundation
View
120
Download
3
Tags:
Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
It is understood worldwide that to compete in the global marketplace companies need to innovate Many industrialised economies (both developed and developing) have identified HPC as a key tool for innovation.
Citation preview
Fortissimo Enabling manufacturing SMEs to benefit
from HPC
Andrés Gómez
CESGA
05/06/2014
This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and
demonstration under grant agreement no 609029.
HPC and economic growth
• It is understood worldwide that to compete in the
global marketplace companies need to innovate
• Many industrialised economies (both developed
and developing) have identified HPC as a key
tool for innovation
• In the USA the phrase “to out compute is to out
compete” has been used to make the case to
Government
• Very few funding agencies have properly tried to
study the true economic benefit of HPC to their
company base 2
HPC and economic growth
• IDC: “Each dollar invested in HPC returned, on average, $356 in revenue and $38 in profits or cost savings.”
• IDC: “The pilot study IDC recently completed for the Department of Energy provided further proof that HPC is one of the best investments many companies can make.”
Source: Steve Conway, IDC research vice president for HPC, IDC study “HPC: ROI You Can’t Ignore!”, Nov 2013, http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=244316 3
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 4
(*) ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs
Our goal
To improve company competitiveness
through the use of HPC to deliver
new or improved products and services
Europe has world class
HPC
assets and expertise
Modelling and Simulation
using HPC is being
increasingly deployed to
provide a competitive edge
Economic
growth for
Europe
5
HPC adoption best practice
• Many companies don’t make use of HPC
because there is a large hurdle to overcome
• Initial costs are high: modelling, software, skills
• Fortissimo is designed to help companies
overcome that hurdle and become regular users
of HPC
• Demonstrating its value
• Based on existing model best practice for
working with SMEs
• E.g. Supercomputing Scotland
6
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 up to €250,000 per experiment
• 2 Open Calls for proposals
• First Call has been closed January 2014
• Second closing June 2014
• Optimised financial and legal structure to assist SMEs
7
End user
HPC Service
Provider
Independent
Software Vendor
Research Software Provider
Application
Expert
HPC Expert
End User
HPC Service
Provider
HPC Expert
End user
HPC Service
Provider
Independent Software Vendor
Research Software Provider
Application Expert
HPC Expert
End user
HPC Service
Provider
Independent Software Vendor
HPC Expert
End user
HPC Service
Provider
Independent Software Vendor
Application Expert
HPC Expert
Collaborative scenarios
Successful HPC
projects rely on
multiple collaborative
relationships
8
The current “cloud” of experiments
9
….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
Key Call Details – 1st Call
• 65 proposals
• 5 M€ total funding
• 22 proposed experiments have been selected for integration
(7 from Spain, 1 from Galicia!)
• Industrial sectors covered by the new experiments:
Automotive, Aerospace, Construction, Energy & Renewable
Energy, Envirnomental, Maritime, Metal Processing, Oil &
Gas, Pharmaceutical & Biotech, Plastics
• Execution phase will be July 2014 – December 2015
• 34 SME‘s will join with the 22 new experiments
10
The 2nd “cloud” of experiments (now being integrated as a result of Call-1)
11
….platform for map conversion
… electrical harnesses
Information available at: www.fortissimo-project.eu/experiments
….tidal farm engineering
Manufacturing processes… laser welding, sheet-metal forming, advanced casting
…. drug target binding
Manufacturing design… camshafts, gear transmission, high temp. chimneys, boat design
seismic processing .. oil & gas exploration
… simulation of pipeline components
… radar reflectors & antennas
….environment engineering services
… rapid prototyping ... 3D printing
optimisation … steel component manufacture
… operational decision support for manufacturing
Renewable energy … hydraulic turbines
Time-temp integrators … Pharma logistics
… high temperature superconductors
crowd sensing … smart cities & large facilities
Example of Current Experiment
12
End User: Texas Controls
Application Expert: AIMEN
HPC expert: CESGA
HPC provider: CESGA
Host centre: CESGA
Exp. 404 Improved mechanical design of metal flanges
SME: Texas Controls
World leading tightening company
Study tightening using modelling and simulation to improve the process.
2nd Open Call - Objectives
• Competitive call for HPC-Cloud-based Application Experiments for the FORTISSIMO project
• Target: simulation services for the benefit of manufacturing SMEs
• Priority given to proposals complementing existing Fortissimo experiments
Business relevant investigations and demonstrations of simulation services in the Fortissimo HPC Cloud that have the potential to create business benefits for manufacturing SMEs.
13
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.
14
www.fortissimo-project.eu/calls/partnering
Key Call Details
Proposals: (max.) 10-page documents, in English,
electronic submission.
Submission Deadline: 18th June, 2014, at 17:00
Brussels local time
Expected duration of participation: 1st January 2015 to
30th June 2016
Foreseen budget for Call-2: up to 2 M€ funding for new
beneficiaries
Maximum funding request per proposal: 250,000 €
15
Key Call-2 Documents
• Call Text (“introduction”)
• Guideline for proposers (“proposers guide”)
• Proposal Exemplar, Word & PDF (“exemplar”)
• Proposer-Evaluator check-list (“check-list” tab at /calls)
• Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQ” tab at /calls)
16
Documents & info pages: www.fortissimo-project.eu/calls
Further Information
• Fortissimo web page: www.fortissimo-project.eu
• I4MS web page: www.i4ms.eu
• Fortissimo contact: [email protected]
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=5096901&trk=my_groups-b-grp-v
• Twitter: @FortissimoPro
17