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The '''Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications''' ('''DEISA''') is a [[European Union]] [[supercomputer]] project. It is made up of a consortium of eleven leading national supercomputing centres from seven European[[Europe]]an countries. It supports a pan-European world-leading computational science research by providing and operating a persistent, production quality, distributed supercomputing environment all over Europe. ItEuropeand aims at delivering a turnkey opera­tional solution for a future European [[Highhigh-performance_computing|HPCperformance computing]] eco­system. By extending the European collaborative environment in the area of supercomputing, DEISA follows the suggestions of [[ESFRI]].

=== History and Funding ===

The '''Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications''' ('''DEISA''') is a [[European Union]] [[supercomputer]] project.

The DEISA project started as DEISA1<supref>[[http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_LANG=EN&PJ_RCN=9043360&pid=0&q=0B66388C6D78D5C148A0745B42BDAE57&type=sim DEISA1 on [[Cordis]]]</supref> in 2002 developing and supporting a pan-European distributed high performance computing infrastructure. The initial project was funded by the [[European Commission]] in [[Sixth_Framework_Programme|FP6]]. The funding continued for the followup project DEISA2<supref>[[http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_LANG=EN&PJ_RCN=10069312&pid=0&q=552A6FB756E2670E450CDD0BC5BED465&type=sim Continued funding]]</supref> in [[Seventh_Framework_Programme|FP7]].

=== History and Funding ===

The DEISA project started as DEISA1^{[[http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_LANG=EN&PJ_RCN=9043360&pid=0&q=0B66388C6D78D5C148A0745B42BDAE57&type=sim]]} in 2002 developing and supporting a pan-European distributed high performance computing infrastructure. The initial project was funded by the [[European Commission]] in [[Sixth_Framework_Programme|FP6]]. The funding continued for the followup project DEISA2^{[[http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.document&PJ_LANG=EN&PJ_RCN=10069312&pid=0&q=552A6FB756E2670E450CDD0BC5BED465&type=sim]]} in [[Seventh_Framework_Programme|FP7]].

=== Organisation and Aims ===

DEISA is made up of a consortium of eleven leading national supercomputing centres from seven European countries. It supports a pan-European world-leading computational science research by providing and operating a persistent, production quality, distributed supercomputing environment all over Europe. It aims at delivering a turnkey opera­tional solution for a future European [[High-performance_computing|HPC]] eco­system. By extending the European collaborative environment in the area of supercomputing, DEISA follows the suggestions of [[ESFRI]].

=== Infrastructure ===

The DEISA infrastructure tightly couples the eleven national supercomputing centres which form the DEISA consortium with a dedicated (mostly 10Gbit/s) network connection provided by [[GEANT2|GÉANT2]] on the European level and the [[NREN]]s on the national level. New socalled associate partners will also be connected to this infrastructure, too.

== Consortium==

There are 11 principal partners and four associate partners.

=== Principal partners===

The 11 principal partners of DEISA are:

*[[Max Planck Gesellschaft]], [[Germany]]

*[[Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities]], Germany

*[[Barcelona Supercomputing Center]], [[Spain]]

*[[Cineca|CINECA]], [[Italy]]

*[[CSC, Scientific Computing Ltd]], [[Finland]]

* [[ECMWF|European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts]], [[United Kingdom]]

* [[Jülich Research Centre]], Germany

* Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique ([[CNRS]]), [[France]]

* [[Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]]

* [[EPCC|Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre]], United Kingdom

* High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), [[University of Stuttgart]], Germany

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=== Associate partners ===

The 4four associate partners are:

:* CEA, Computing Complex, [[Bruyères-le-Châtel]], France.

* CEA

:* JSCC, Joint Supercomputer Center of the [[Russian_Academy_of_Sciences|Russian Academy of Sciences]], [[Moscow]]

:Computing Complex

:* Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), [[Manno]], [[Switzerland]]

:Bruyères-le-Châtel, France.

:* The Royal Institute of Technologies - Center for Parallel Computers, ([[KTH]]), [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]

* JSCC

:Joint Supercomputer Center of the [[Russian_Academy_of_Sciences|Russian Academy of Sciences]]

:Moscow, Russia.

* CSCS

:Swiss National Supercomputing Centre

:Manno, Switzerland

* [[KTH]]

:The Royal Institute of Technologies - Center for Parallel Computers

:Stockholm, Sweden

==Deisa Benchmark Suite==

[[DEISA]] has produced a packaged [[benchmark (computing)|benchmark suite]] to help computer scientists assess the performance of parallel supercomputer systems. The benchmark comprises a number of real applications codes taken from a wide range of scientific disciplines. All the codes are packaged into a structured framework allowing compilation, execution and analysis to be configured and carried out via a set of standard input files.

[[DEISA]] has produced a packaged [[benchmark (computing)|benchmark suite]] to help computational

scientists in assessing the performance of parallel supercomputer

systems. The benchmark comprises a number of real applications codes

taken from a wide range of scientific disciplines. All the codes are

packaged into a structured framework allowing compilation, execution and

analysis to be configured and carried out via a set of standard input

files.

The codes were chosen as representative of the scientific projects performed on the DEISA supercomputers. The codes and associated datasets have been selected to be useful in benchmarking systems with peak performances ranging up to hundreds of teraflops, machines which

The codes have been chosen as being representative of the scientific

are more powerful than a desktop [[personal computer|PC]] by factors of tens of thousands.

projects performed on the DEISA supercomputers. The codes and associated

datasets have been selected to be useful in benchmarking systems with

peak performances ranging up to hundreds of teraflops, machines which

are more powerful than a desktop PC by factors of tens of thousands.

The current suite contains codes relevant to [[astrophysics]], [[fluid dynamics]], [[climate modelling]], [[bioscience]]s, [[materials science]], [[nuclear fusion|fusion power]] and fundamental [[particle physics]]. It has been run by DEISA on a range of its own supercomputers and records of the results are kept for comparison. The DEISA benchmark was used by the EU-funded PRACE project as a starting point for their investigations of benchmarks for the next generation of petaflop supercomputers.

The current suite contains codes relevant to astrophysics, fluid

dynamics, climate modelling, biosciences, materials science, fusion

power and fundamental particle physics. It has been run by DEISA on a

range of its own supercomputers and records of the results are kept for comparison. The DEISA

benchmark has already been used by the EU-funded PRACE project as a

starting point for their own investigations of benchmarks for the next

generation of petaflop supercomputers.

==Notes==

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== External Linkslinks ==

^{[[http://www.deisa.eu/]]}

* [http://www.deisa.eu/ DEISA]

* [http://www.mpg.de/ Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG)]

: [http://www.rzg.mpg.de/ Rechenzentrum Garching (RZG)]

* [http://www.badw.de/ Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften]

: [http://www.lrz.de/ Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ)]

* [http://www.bsc.es/ Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)]

* [http://www.cineca.it/ CINECA]

* [http://www.csc.fi/ CSC]

* [http://www.ecmwf.int/ ECMWF]

* [http://www.fzj.de/ Forschungzentrum Jülich (FZJ)]

* [http://www.cnrs.fr/ CNRS]

: [http://www.idris.fr/ IDRIS]

* [http://www.sara.nl/ SARA]

* [http://www.ed.ac.uk/ The University of Edinburgh]

: [http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/ EPCC]

* [http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/ Universität Stuttgart]

: [http://www.hlrs.de/ HLRS]

* [http://www.cea.fr/ CEA]

* [http://www.ras.ru/ Russian Academy of Sciences]

: [http://www.jscc.ru/ JSCC]

* [http://www.ethz.ch/ ETH Zürich]

: [http://www.cscs.ch/ CSCS]

* [http://www.kth.se/ KTH]

: [http://www.pdc.kth.se/ PDC]

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