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Short profile of the Partners
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AIRBUS - http://www.airbus.com
The Airbus group is a leading aircraft manufacturer made of a holding company, Airbus SAS, and of four national companies - Airbus FRANCE S.A.S (Airbus FR), Airbus DEUTSCHLAND GmbH (Airbus D), Airbus ESPAÑA S.L. and Airbus UK Ltd (Airbus UK). Airbus holds about 50% of the world market for airliners with more than 100 seats. Airbus designs and then manufactures new aircrafts in connection with several partners and sub-contractors. A-WARE deliverables are for AIRBUS, enablers to federate and optimise the IT infrastructure for simulation in the scope of CAE.
Role: Industrial partner of the project involved in the design of the A-WARE technology contributing in user requirement, user specification and validation by defining concrete situations encountered in the daily business.
CINECA Interuniversity Consortium - http://www.cineca.it
CINECA is the most important Italian supercomputing centre for public and private research activities and one of the largest in the world. The Consortium gathers 18 Italian Universities, and the National Research Council (CNR). It was established by law in 1969 and is managed by a Board of Directors, including the Rectors of the member universities, CNR and a representative of the Ministry for University and Scientific and Technological Research.
CINECA has been working in the field of technology of transmission for a long time, promoting several initiatives, e.g. high-performance scientific computing, the development and realization of computing systems for the treatment of large sets of data, data transmission networks, training.
CINECA’s aim is to enable researchers to use HPC systems in a profitable way, as well as to stay tuned with newest technology advances in HPC, e.g. GRIDs. CINECA has signed partnership with some of the most relevant national research institutions (INFM, INSTM, INAF, OGS, SISSA) covering condensed matter, structured matter, astrophysics, geophysics, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and bioinformatics discipline, but also the so-defined "non-traditional" sectors, such as biomedicine, archeology and data-mining. Last but not least some of the most important Italian industries (e.g. ENI, FIAT, PIRELLI, ALENIA, etc.) use CINECA’s HPC facilities.
Role: Project Coordinator, is involved at the development and support level of the A-WARe technology. It leads the project management and the technical testing; and participates to all the activities of the project.
Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) - http://www.fz-juelich.de
The Research Centre Jülich (FZJ) is the largest national German research facility. Scientific Computing plays a central role amongst its various research activities which include solid state physics, plasma physics, nuclear physics, medicine, chemistry of the geo-sphere, and energy research. Furthermore, the John von Neumann-Institute for Computing (NIC) that was founded by FZJ and the Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron in Hamburg (DESY) as a successor of the supercomputing centre HLRZ provides supercomputer capacity for projects in science, research, and industry on a national base.
Within the FZJ, the Central Institute for Applied Mathematics (ZAM) is responsible for the supercomputers and the necessary information technology infrastructure (software, data storage, networks) both for the research centre and the NIC. The main research activities of the ZAM are on algorithms, software and tools for simulations and their visualization, high performance communication, and Grid computing.
Role: Along with CINECA is the non industrial partner involved in development and support the A-WARE technology. It leads the A-WARE architectural design and the standardization impact of A-WARE implementation experience; and participates to all the activities of the project.
Fujitzu Labs Europe (FLE) - http://jp.fujitsu.com/group/labs/en
Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe (FLE) was founded on April of 2001 from two Fujitsu research institutes in Europe (FECIT and FTRC). The combined, decade old, expertise in Grid and information technology from FECIT and the mobile and radio communication technology from FTRC creates a strong organization dedicated to research, development, and standardization.
Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe is a fully owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited of Japan. It is strongly aimed to carry out research and development through collaborative process involving universities and industries throughout Europe.
FLE's immediate parent company, Fujitsu Laboratories Limited of Japan, employs about 1600 staff worldwide and carries out research in all areas critical to the future development of Fujitsu's technology base, as one of the world leaders in the supply of technology.
Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe has taken a leadership role in the architectural conceptualization and development of the Grid infrastructure with a particular emphasis on Unicore but also through its leadership of the architecture activity in the NextGRID project. It has also taken a leading role in the standardization of Grid technologies through the Global Grid Forum, W3C, and OASIS. FLE's successful contributions to the Unicore architecture and implementation have lead to Unicore's adoption in several EU and national projects over the past few years (EuroGrid, GRIP, RealityGrid, UniGrids, OpenMolGrid etc) as well as by the a major national Grid development project in Japan (NaReGI).
Role: Industrial partner of the project involved in development the A-WARE technology, also in liaison and cooperating with activities of other IST Grid projects, and playing its role in the standard definition groups.
NICE - http://www.nice-italy.com
Founded in 1996, NICE is a private, self-financed European company which offers software products and IT solutions built on top of industry leader software products aimed at company-wide publishing, optimization and rationalization of computing resources via Grid computing technologies.
NICE flagship product EnginFrame provides an efficient infrastructure to publish technical computing applications on the corporate Intranet/Internet. Its core advantage is a quick migration to the Computing Portal paradigm, i.e. an intuitive web-based interface to computing and engineering resources. As pioneer of the Grid market in Europe, NICE is member of the Steering Committee of the EGEE Industry Forum.
NICE's clients of Grid computing solutions include leading companies like Audi, ENI/Agip, Ferrari, FIAT, Procter&Gamble, STMicroelectronics, Telecom Italia, TOTAL, Toyota, as well as leading educational and research institutions, such as CILEA, CINECA, ENEA, INFN, ITU, etc.
Role: Industrial partner of the project involved in development the A-WARE technology. It leads the implementation, the exploitation and dissemination of the technology.