The University of Trento designs software for supercomputers – Trentino

  TRENTO. At the start in Trento study for creating useful software to “exascale computers,” machines capable of performing trillions of computing operations per second. The international project ExaHype (An exascale Hyperbolic PDE Engine) funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon 2020 with 2.8 million euro, a working team from the University of Trento, only Italian partner.

 

 

 The project aims to develop a new simulation software for conservation laws, able to harness the power of the next generation supercomputer to be finalized by 2020. “The possible applications in which we work – says Michael Dumbser, of the Laboratory of Applied Mathematics Trento – concern two different scenarios: geophysics, with the calculation of the risk associated with earthquakes, and astrophysics with the simulation of gravitational waves and gamma ray bursts. Earthquakes can not be predicted, but simulations of an exascale supercomputer could help assess the risk of aftershocks. Simulations regionally seems permit a better understanding of what happens during earthquakes large scale and in the next phase of adjustment. ”
 

 “In the field of astrophysics, however – adds Dumbser – new mathematical tools developed in ExaHype could simulate the merger of neutron stars orbiting.” “The goal is to make this technology easily accessible and adaptable to the needs of the most diverse research as quickly as possible. That’s why the results of the project will be accessible to all in open source, “he concludes Dumbser.