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.
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FortissimoEnabling manufacturing SMEs to benefit from HPC
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.
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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
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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
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