{"id":2485,"date":"2017-12-21T12:39:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T11:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2017-12-25T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T09:32:32","slug":"bsc-fusion-group-member-wins-prestigious-eurofusion-engineering-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/2017\/12\/21\/bsc-fusion-group-member-wins-prestigious-eurofusion-engineering-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"BSC Fusion Group Member wins prestigious EUROfusion Engineering Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2486\" src=\"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/EUROfusion-LOGO-WEB_003399-400x122.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/EUROfusion-LOGO-WEB_003399-400x122.png 400w, https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/EUROfusion-LOGO-WEB_003399-1024x312.png 1024w, https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/EUROfusion-LOGO-WEB_003399.png 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are very pleased to announce that <strong>Albert Guti\u00e9rrez<\/strong> from our Fusion Group has been awarded with a prestigious\u00a0<strong>EUROfusion Engineering Grant<\/strong> (EEG) for his project entitled <em>Software Engineering: Development of High Performance Computing capability for fusion workflows, integrated to the ITER Modelling framework<\/em>. The grant starts on <strong>January 1st 2018<\/strong>\u00a0and will have a duration of\u00a0<strong>three years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-fusion.org\/\">EUROfusion<\/a> opens yearly two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-fusion.org\/programme\/education-training\/\">calls for candidates<\/a>: EUROfusion Researcher grants (ERG) and EUROfusion Engineering Grants (EEG). ERG funds 10 post-doctoral candidates for a period of 2 years for a topic relevant to the objectives of the European Fusion Programme. The EEG funds 20 engineers for a period of 3 years for specific key areas defined by the EUROfusion Programme Manager. This year more than 40 people applied and <strong>20 people\u00a0were selected for EEG<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-347\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-347\" src=\"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/team5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/team5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/team5-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/team5.jpg 1683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EUROfusion Engineering Grant winner Albert Guti\u00e9rrez.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Albert&#8217;s\u00a0grant is framed on the efforts of<strong> EUROfusion WPCD<\/strong> (Work Package Code Development) and<strong> ITER IMAS<\/strong> (Integrated Modelling and Analysis Suite). IMAS is a framework to support all the physics modelling needs of ITER. This framework involves several topics such as ITER Physics Data Model, Integrated Workflows or I\/O infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This grant will help to<strong> speed-up the research and understanding of high complex multiphysics systems<\/strong> by integrating supercomputing power to fusion workflows. These workflows will take advantage of PRACE supercomputers as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsc.es\/marenostrum\/marenostrum\"><strong>MareNostrum<\/strong> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cineca.it\/en\/content\/marconi\"><strong>Marconi<\/strong><\/a>, which will be the references for the development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This project\u00a0will be developed in\u00a0close collaboration with other international institutions in the field of fusion such as: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-fusion.org\/\"><strong>EUROfusion<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iter.org\/\"><strong>ITER<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cea.fr\/\"><strong>CEA<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipp.mpg.de\/\"><strong>IPP<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.man.poznan.pl\/online\/pl\/\"><strong>PSNC<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enea.it\/\"><strong>ENEA\/CINECA<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to announce that Albert Guti\u00e9rrez from our Fusion Group has been awarded with a prestigious\u00a0EUROfusion Engineering Grant (EEG) for his project entitled Software Engineering: Development of High Performance Computing capability for fusion workflows, integrated to the ITER Modelling framework. The grant starts on January 1st 2018\u00a0and will have a duration of\u00a0three &#8230; <a title=\"BSC Fusion Group Member wins prestigious EUROfusion Engineering Grant\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/2017\/12\/21\/bsc-fusion-group-member-wins-prestigious-eurofusion-engineering-grant\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about BSC Fusion Group Member wins prestigious EUROfusion Engineering Grant\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}