TERRA-NEO proposal succeeds in SPPEXA Call
Nov 26, 2012
In 2011 DFG issued the first call for the new German Priority Programme 1648 "Software for Exascale Computing". From a total of 68 project sketches 24 were invited for full proposals. Of these 13 projects were finally selected for the first 3-year funding period. All SPPEXA projects will start in January 2013.
Among the proposals funded is TERRA-NEO, a project for the Integrated Co-Design of an Exascale Earth Mantle Modeling Framework. The main idea behind TERRA-NEO is the development of a new exascale simulation framework for the Geodynamics community. The new code will include state-of-the art as well as newly developed discretization strategies and numerical algorithms and be specially designed for the upcoming heterogeneous exascale computers. By using an architecture-aware design process and systematic performance engineering the new framework will combine the user-friendliness of a community code with high efficiency and scalability.
The project consortium involves
- Numerical Mathematics Group (Prof. Wohlmuth) of the Technical University of Munich
- HPC Group (Prof. Gerhard Wellein) of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- System Simulation Group (Prof. Ulrich Rüde) of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Geodynamics Group (Prof. Hans-Peter Bunge) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Thus, TERRA-NEO brings top experts together that cover all aspects of Computational Science & Engineering, from modeling via the discretization to solvers and software engineering for exascale architectures.