Ter@tec has been founded in 2005 and has initiated 10 projects until now.

There are several infrastructure projects: FAME2, CARRIOCAS, POPS, SCOS; applications projects: NUMASIS (seismic appliations), TELEDOS (health care), PARMA (manufacturing), POPS (pharmaceutical, automotive, financial applications, and multi-physical simulations). Projects that look at parallel and debugging tools include:

PARA, POPS, and PARMA. There are also projects that look at numerical simulation. This was explained by Jean-François Lavignon from Bull at ISC08 in Dresden.

FAME2 is a new generation of servers for intensive computing and information processing. The FAME2 project is

running since December 2005. The project looks at HPC servers; Application parallelisation tools; Grand challenges and efficient support of very large databases. Project leader is Bull.

A supercomputer project is POPS (Peta-Operations Per Second). This project addresses new application areas in car design, drug design, decision-making, and finance. The objectives are to design systems that can accommodate a very broad range of high performance processing needs, up to Peataflop/s range.

Parma is a project about parallel programming for multi-core architectures. It is a A European project that capitalizes on the results of the FAME2 project. It wants to deliver substantial performance improvements for:

• conventional HPC applications;
• mainstream applications;
• embedded systems

Parma will develop advanced technologies for exploiting parallel computing and explore commonalities between HPC, Multi-Core and MPSoC programming environments. Parma has 17 project partners from France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.

More information on the Parma project can be found at: http://www.parma-itea2.org

More information on the Ter@tec project can be found at: http://www.teratec.eu/