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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The current “cloud” of experiments

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….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

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The 2nd “cloud” of experiments (now being integrated as a result of Call-1)

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….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

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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.

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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.

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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 €

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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)

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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: info@fortissimo-project.eu

• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=5096901&trk=my_groups-b-grp-v

• Twitter: @FortissimoPro

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