{"id":2035,"date":"2020-11-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexis-project.eu\/web\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2021-02-19T18:56:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:56:09","slug":"lexis-brings-hpc-technologies-closer-to-smes-industry-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexis-project.eu\/web\/news\/lexis-brings-hpc-technologies-closer-to-smes-industry-and-society\/","title":{"rendered":"LEXIS brings HPC technologies closer to SMEs, industry and society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A new platform can help industry, society and especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to easily access and use efficient heterogeneous distributed infrastructures without the need for advanced computing knowledge. To lower the entry barriers to the worlds of supercomputing, cloud, and big data, an EU-funded project is testing its platform in Aeronautics, Earthquake & Tsunami, and Weather & Climate domains. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The increasing\nquantity of data poses an enormous challenge for organisations seeking to\nextract knowledge critical for business, operations and research. Combinations\nof high-performance computing (HPC), Cloud and Big Data technologies are key to\nmeet the needs of large and small organisations alike. However, this has been\ndifficult since the supercomputing centres served merely the academic research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe LEXIS (Large-scale EXecution for Industry\n& Society) project is building an advanced engineering platform at the\nconfluence of HPC, Cloud and Big Data, which uses large-scale\ngeographically-distributed resources from the existing HPC infrastructure,\nemploys Big Data analytics solutions and augments them with Cloud services,\u201d<\/em> explains the project coordinator\nDr. Jan Martinovic from IT4Innovations. The platform is driven by the\nrequirements of three initial pilot use cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\naeronautics pilot mainly focuses on accelerating turbomachinery and\nrotating-parts simulation workflows by direct code acceleration. In addition,\nadvanced hydrodynamics simulation capabilities are now used to predict fluid\nflow around complex geometries under turbulent motion in the Rotating Parts\nuse-case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earthquake and\nTsunami simulations and warnings are in the focus of the second pilot. The main\nachievement was a clear formalisation of the complex workflows, which runs\nunder time-constrained conditions. The computational efficiency of the tsunami\nsimulation code was improved and therefore delivering results of a potential tsunami\nwave inundation in less than a minute enables faster and more accurate\nemergency warnings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last but not\nleast, the Weather and Climate large-scale pilot deals with advanced workflows\nto predict e.g. flash floods, agricultural yields, forest fires and air\nquality, all based on numerical weather forecasts. Prototypes of the workflows\nare being implemented and tested on the LEXIS infrastructure which paves the\nway for the subsequent assimilation of multiple observational weather data in\norder to make all our predictions more reliable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the LEXIS pilots, several\nneeds shared by SMEs and industry were identified within a number of different\nfields:<\/p>\n\n\n\n