Massive financial and scientific efforts are ongoing to push the scale of HPC infrastructures to the next level, exascale — a scale where a single machine would be able to perform twice as much computation as the current 100 most powerful supercomputers in Europe.
The TEXTAROSSA project aims to achieve a broad impact on the High Performance Computing (HPC) field both in pre-exascale and exascale scenarios.
The TEXTAROSSA consortium will develop new hardware accelerators, innovative two-phase cooling equipment, advanced algorithms, methods and software products for traditional HPC domains as well as for emerging domains in High Performance Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI) and High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA).
TEXTAROSSA (Towards EXtreme scale Technologies and AcceleRatOrS for HW/SW Supercomputing Applications for exascale) has been selected for funding by the European High Performance Computing (EuroHPC) Joint Undertaking within the EuroHPC-01-2019/Extreme scale computing and data driven technologies call, sub-topic a), as one of the key programs that will innovate and widen the overall efficiency of High Performance Computing (HPC) systems.
The three-year project, led by ENEA (Italy), has started on April 1st, 2021 and aggregates 17 institutions and companies located in 5 European countries:
- CINI (an Italian consortium grouping together three leading universities, Politecnico di Milano, Università degli studi di Torino, and Università di Pisa),
- FRAUNHOFER (Germany),
- INRIA (France),
- ATOS (France),
- E4 Computer Engineering (Italy),
- BSC (Spain),
- PSNC (Poland),
- INFN (Italy),
- CNR (Italy),
- In Quattro (Italy),
- Université de Bordeaux (France),
- CINECA (Italy),
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).
