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1. NOTUR www.notur.org

2. The Norwegian High-Performance Computational Infrastructure NOTUR The Consortium: NTNU UiO UiB UiT DNMI SINTEF Statoil Ceetron ASA/ViewTech ASA (Telenor)

3. ….in response toThe Principal Mission defined by the Research Council to be: • to offer a cost effectivenational infrastructure for high performance computing for scientists at Norwegian universities and colleges; • to provide the Norwegian Meteorological Institute with the required high performance computing facilities for operational forecasting and research; • to ensure that other participants who contribute to the funding of the program can utilise the facilities.

4. Tromsø TRONDHEIM BERGEN OSLO National High Performance Computational Environment A nationally accessible high-performance computational environment will give users a competitive edge.

5. National Roles NTNU: Large-scale parallel computation. UiO: Data intensive computation. UiB: Affordable parallel computing. UiT: CPU-intensive sequential simulations. (Serve local needs)

6. High Operational Quality Round the clock continuous operation will provide high availability and stability of the resource. • Operations Metacenter • Common framework for the user interface, including e.g. • homogeneous file system • homogeneous queuing system • uniform application- and log-in environment • Avoid duplicate efforts through e.g. • common training programs • local user support, but with a single contact point

7. Problem formulation Feedback Modelling Implementation Solution Decision Integration Integrated collaboration between universities, research institutes and industry will accelerate the innovation process.

8. A M C Technology Push and Application Pull Applications Multi-disciplinary collaboration between mathematicians, computer scientists and researchers within science and engineering will stimulate innovative research and development. Technologies Projects CSE

9. Scientific Visualisation The national high-performance computational environment will be extended to include real-time and large-scale visualisation technologies.

10. International Collaboration Links to international partners will be important for the national HPC environment.

11. HPC Metacenter Project Organisation

12. The goal of the Metacenter is to establish a uniform, and as seamless as possible, access to the Resources and Support infrastructure in the NOTUR network Quota application Regulations of use Training Computer resources Application management User support HPC Metacenter

13. Emerging Technologies Enable the Norwegian research and engineering community to take advantage of early use of emerging technologies in HPC. • Technology watch (new technologies, new demands) • Computational GRID concepts • Support the Metacenter (operations, user interface) • National dimension

14. The goal of the TTPs is to strengthen the competence and usage of HPC. In addition the project shall accelerate the accessability of effective HPC-tools and mechanisms amongst HPC-users in Norway. Scalable algorithms Scientific visualisation Climate and Environment Industry and Energy Nature Science Technology Transfer Projects

15. Outreach and Dissemination Acceleration of the awareness and take up of HPC among a broader field of application will extend the impact of HPC on the Norwegian society. Introduce HPC to at least one new research area every year

16. Expenditures Sources Budget (Total 168 MNOK)

17. Progress Plan Q4, 2000: First installation, Trondheim. Start Metacenter, Emerging technologies, Outreach and dissemination. Q1-Q2, 2001: First installations at UiO and UiT. Start TTPs. Q3, 2001: Installation at UiB. Q2-Q4, 2002: Equipment upgrades at NTNU, UiO, UiT. Q4, 2003: Project termination, option for extension.

18. HPC resources (Oct-2001)

19. Possible Areas of Nordic Cooperation • User group, operational experience • Technical problems data base • User FAQs data base • Short courses, training programs for technical staff