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Complex systems and software engineering
Institute for Development and Resources in Intensive Scientific Computing (IDRIS)
Research unit
IDRIS is a centre of excellence in intensive numerical computing and the processing of large amounts of scientific data, serving all disciplines of science. It is the CNRS national centre for high-performance computing and numerical simulation. On behalf of civil society GENCI (Grand équipement national de calcul intensif), it provides about a thousand researchers and engineers from the scientific community in all its disciplines with some of the most powerful intensive computing resources available, as well as the services and expertise associated with them.
Innovation themes
Rue John Von Neumann
91403 ORSAY
Expertises
- installation
- server administration
Network:
- servicing
- oversight
Support, advice and training:
- intensive computing
- code parallelization paradigms (MPI, OpenMP, hybrid programming)
- GPU accelerator programming
Applications sectors
- Biotechnology
- Health / wellness
- Aeronautics / Aerospace
Total number of employees
Equipment(s) open to collaboration
Calculators :
- Turing: IBM Blue Gene/Q (98304 compute cores, 96 Tio memory, 1.258 Pflops)
- Ada : IBM x3750 (10624 compute cores, 46 Tio memory, 230 Tflops)
Archive server :
- Ergon : IBM + Oracle SL8500 solution (2 Pio local disk space, 10 Pio available space on tapes)
Keywords
Valuation offer
Training offer :
- scientific programming languages
- Parallelization paradigms (MPI, OpenMP, hybrid programming)
- GPU accelerator programming
- debugging parallel applications
- PATC (PRACE Advanced Training Centre https://www.training.prace-ri.eu)
Projects examples
- EoCoE (Energy oriented Centre of Excellence) www.eocoe.eu
- E-CAM (an e-infrastructure for Software, Training and Consulting in Simulation and Modeling) www.e-cam2020.eu
- Projet ANR Convergence (Convergence facing Big Data era and Exascale challenges for Climate Sciences) convergence.ipsl.fr
Industrial and scientific relations
Scientific collaborations
Ecole CentraleSupélec, ENS Paris-Saclay, E-RHIS (European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science), Institut français de bioinformatique, Maison de la simulation d'Orsay, etc.
300 projects and 1000 users per year in all scientific themes :
- setting
- fluid mechanics, combustion, turbulence
- biology and health
- astrophysics and geophysics
- theoretical and plasma physics
- quantum chemistry and molecular modelling
- material physics
- new applications and cross-functional applications of HPC
Private collaborations
- within the framework of projects and training, IDRIS collaborates with several large industrial groups and SMEs
Establishments of affiliation
