U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected the XGC code in Early Science programs for optimization on three powerful new supercomputers, which will serve as forerunners for even more powerful exascale machines that are to begin operating in the United States in the early 2020’s.
On Thursday February 16 our group member Dr. Xavier Sáez gave a talk within the PATC course “HPC-based simulations, Engineering and Environment” at Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
The mission of the PRACE Advanced Training Centers (PATC) is to carry out and coordinate training and education activities that enable the European research community to utilize the computational infrastructure available through PRACE.
Este domingo, en el programa “Sostenible y renovable” de RNE se ha entrevistado al físico Carlos Alejaldre sobre la fusión nuclear. Carlos Alejaldre es investigador en el Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión (CIEMAT) y ha sido director general adjunto del reactor de fusión ITER.
The ITER Organization and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center have gone one step further in their collaboration to simulate the process of fusion power generation. Both parties have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in which they agree on the importance of promoting and furthering academic and scientific cooperation in all academic and scientific fields of mutual interest and to advance the training of young researchers.
ITER is the international nuclear fusion R&D project, which is building the world’s largest experimental tokamak in France. It aims to demonstrate that fusion energy is scientifically and technologically feasible.
Researchers at the National Institute of Fusion Science (NIFS) succeeded for the first time in the world in conducting a micro-level simulation of a plasma blob in the “edge region” of the plasma. This simulation ran on the Plasma Simulator supercomputer, which is dedicated exclusively to plasma and fusion science use.
Last 23rd December, our group had the opportunity to attend the presentation of the new supercomputer that will be installed at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The event counted with the participation of the companies that collaborate in the start-up of the new machine: IBM, Intel, Lenovo and Fujitsu.