08/04/2022 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/05/2022 09:19
The CEA-RIKEN High Performance Computing and Computational Science agreement was signed in January 2017 and ran for five years. During this period CEA and RIKEN focused jointly on developing and optimizing scientific applications in different areas (such as health, or material sciences, risk and hazard management…) and improving their supercomputing technologies.
There is a shared vision between Japan and France, recognizing that High Performance Computing is the basis for numerical simulation and for big data processing, which are key enablers for scientific and industrial competitiveness and economic growth. A complete control of these technologies is a challenge even for the most advanced countries. France and Japan both have national programs for exascale supercomputers, and foster co-design between industrial partners and research organisms for this purpose.
There is also a strong convergence of viewpoints on technological and methodological options: interest of ARM processor technology, open software ecosystems interoperability between architectures, co-design and partnership with industrial technology suppliers, and development of user ecosystems.
Combining efforts is a way to accelerate some developments, and amplify their dissemination while fostering extra talent generation on both sides.
The scope of the collaboration covers in particular the development of open source software components, organized in an environment that can benefit both hardware developers and software and application developers on x86 as well as ARM architectures, FPGA and accelerators.
We now open a second cycle of such CEA/RIKEN collaboration for 2022 until 2026.
CEA RIKEN collaboration is involving more than 60 researchers in HPC, AI and Big Data, working together from different places, meeting twice a year during plenary workshops in France and Japan alternatively.
Thanks to the CEA and RIKEN collaboration, French and Japanese researchers achieved a number of advances and original developments in computational and computing sciences are looking forward for more success stories in the next five years.