{"id":5306,"date":"2021-04-23T08:10:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T07:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/?p=5306"},"modified":"2021-04-23T08:13:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T07:13:29","slug":"sparcity-the-new-collaborative-project-to-create-a-supercomputing-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hub.inesc.pt\/?p=5306","title":{"rendered":"SparCity: the new collaborative project to create a supercomputing framework"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5306\" data-post-id=\"5306\" data-obj-id=\"5306\" class=\"elementor elementor-5306 dce-elementor-post-5306\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1e146b80 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1e146b80\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-55a94c60\" data-id=\"55a94c60\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4de2aa73 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4de2aa73\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\"><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Recently funded by the <strong>European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking<\/strong> (EuroHPC JU), the highly ranked SparCity just launched. With three years of duration and <strong>a total budget of 2.6M\u20ac<\/strong>, this collaborative project between 6 partners in 4 countries aims to build a sustainable exascale ecosystem and increase Europe\u2019s competitiveness.<\/span><\/p><p><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The main goal of <strong>SparCity<\/strong> is to create a supercomputing framework that will provide efficient algorithms and coherent tools specifically designed for maximising the performance and energy efficiency of sparse computations on emerging High Performance Computing systems, while also opening up new usage areas for sparse computations in data analytics and deep learning.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SparCity involves partnerships with Sabanci Universitesi (Turkey), Simula Research Laboratory (Norway), <strong>INESC-ID<\/strong> (Portugal), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (Germany) and Graphcore (Norway), with the coordination of Ko\u00e7 University (Turkey).<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u201cFor INESC-ID, SparCity will leverage the efforts on the European low power processing technologies (in particular the European Processor Initiative) and contribute to the realisation of future exascale system architectures based on such technologies\u201d <\/em>says <strong>Prof. Leonel Sousa<\/strong>, Full Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico, University of Lisbon, and Senior Researcher of the High-Performance Computer Architectures and Systems Research Group.<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently funded by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), the highly ranked SparCity just launched. 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