Oportunidades para PYME. Financiación Innovación en HPC y BIG DATA. Requisitos solicitudes.

1. Fortissimo 2 Call-1
Seminar for Proposers
Andrés Gómez
CESGA
18/03/2016
Based on presentation of Guy Lonsdale, Scapos
This project has received funding from the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
under grant agreement No 680481

2. ICT INNOVATION
FOR MANUFACTURING SMEs
Part of the
Factories of the
Future (FoF)
Initiative

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HPC for SMEs
“… HIGHLIGHTS that HPC is a crucial asset for the EU's innovation capacity
and STRESSES its strategic importance to benefit the EU's industrial
capabilities as well as its citizens, by innovating industrial products and
services, increasing competitiveness, and addressing grand societal and
scientific challenges more effectively.”
Draft Council Conclusions on 'High Performance Computing: Europe's place in a Global Race’” of
March 27th, 2013
But for SMEs, HPC does not always mean big supercomputers

4. Constraints on CAE usage by SMEs (2004)
Training,
V&V, and
consulting
Open Source
External CPUs:
CLOUD
http://simula.cesga.es

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• Fortissimo – 2013-2016
Business relevant investigations and
demonstrations of simulation services in the
Fortissimo HPC Cloud creating future business
benefits for manufacturing SMEs
• Fortissimo 2 – 2015-2018
Builds on the success of Fortissimo and aims to
extend and demonstrate the business potential
of an ecosystem for HPC-Cloud services,
specifically for applications involving simulation
of coupled physical processes or high-
performance data analytics.
The Fortissimo Projects

6. • Goal: provide SMEs with easy and cost-effective access to
advanced simulation services through a Cloud
infrastructure consisting of HPC resources, software
applications, expertise, and tools
• Ambition: become THE portal of choice for HPC expertise
and service provision, delivered by Europe’s major HPC
technology providers
GO TO https://www.fortissimo-marketplace.com
Fortissimo Goal & Ambition
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7. Marketplace Services
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The Fortissimo Marketplace will create value and
opportunities for all actors in the design process, from
Independent Software Vendors (ISV) looking for a
reliable partner to implement their Software-as-a-
Service strategy, to engineers working within strict
time and budget constraints. In the near future you will
be able to explore our offers, services and successes.

8. Marketplace Services
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Registry
Simulation-as-a-Service
HPC Platform-as-a-Service
HPC Infrastructure
Support Consultancy
Business
Container
Code
Verification
Matchmaking

9. What does Fortissimo success look like?
• Two levels:
1. 50-60 successful ‘experiments’ with SMEs
delivering real business impact through HPC
2. Well-managed successful project delivering Core
Services, Open Calls and working Marketplace
• Vital statistics:
– €22m costs / €16m funding
– Approx. 130 partners (14 core – remainder
experiment partners – many SMEs)
– 53 experiments – €180,000-€250,000 / 3-5
partners
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10. Successful Fortissimo Open Calls – high demand
• Two Open Calls
– Call 1: 65 proposals – funded 22 new experiments
– Call 2: 82 proposals – funded 11 new experiments
– All run as per EC best practice
• Optimised arrangements for SMEs
– Protecting their IPR through experiment ‘IP bubble’
– Dealing with cash-flow within EC grant constraints
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11. Fortissimo – delivering for manufacturing SMEs
• Strong demand evident
• Many SMEs new to HPC but
seeing real benefits
• Direct impact on
– Manufacturing costs
– Product quality
– Jobs and growth
• Next steps - delivering open
sustainable marketplace
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Funded under first I4MS H2020 Call
Innovation Action
Start date: 1st November 2015
Duration: 36 months
Costs: € 11,162,114
Funding: € 9,999,769
Two open calls with total funding of €5,000,000
Fortissimo 2 - Vital statistics

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• Competitive call for HPC-Cloud-based Application
Experiments for the Fortissimo 2 project, focusing on
modelling and simulation of coupled phenomena
and high-performance data analytics
• Augmenting the current set of experiments
(& of course those of Fortissimo)
• In all cases targeting benefits for engineering and
manufacturing SMEs and mid-caps
Fortissimo 2 Call-1 - Objectives

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What is HPC?
High Performance Computing
(HPC) is the use of servers,
clusters, and supercomputers – plus
associated software, tools,
components, storage, and services
– for scientific, engineering, or
analytical tasks that are particularly
intensive in computation, memory
usage, or data management
Process
Conceptual Model
Mathematical Model
Software
Numerical Resolution
Analysis
Validation
New conditions
Intersec360
Adapted from “La computación competitiva”, Andrés
Gómez Tato, 2014.

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What is HPDA?
High Performance Data Analytics
(HPDA) = tasks involving sufficient
data volumes and algorithmic
complexity to require HPC resources.
Steve Conway & Chirag DeKate, IDC
https://hpcuserforum.com/presentations/tuscon2013/
IDCHPDABigDataHPC.pdf
• Established (simulation) or newer
(analytics) methods
• Structured data, unstructured data,
or both
• Regular (e.g., Hadoop) or irregular
(e.g., graph) patterns
• Accumulated results of iterative
problem-solving methods (e.g.,
stochastic modeling, parametric
modeling).

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• Priority will be given to
experiments driven by the
requirements of first-time
HPC users and, by implication,
organisations engaging in
Fortissimo for the first time.
Fortissimo 2 Call-1 – Key aspects
• Experiments should develop clear
exploitation paths ensuring
business impact and wider
subsequent use of the services and
technologies developed. They should
also investigate service deployment in
the Fortissimo marketplace.
kiln_simulation_generator.py
Computational Fluid Dynamics with OpenFOAM®
Fernando Núñez Sánchez directed by Andrés Gómez

17. The original Fortissimo “cloud” of experiments
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….aerodynamics
of light aircraft
…continuous casting
..design of metal flanges
…high pressure
vessels
.. Multiphysics simulation .. CFD … automotive design
… tools for urban
planning
… routing architecture
optimisation..
.. correlation ..
simulation & tests for
mechatronics
… air-quality over cities
… risers, moorings
and flowlines ... low-pressure
die-casting …
… CFD for
turbomachinery
… structural crash tests
… eolian snow transport
for civil engineering …
… commercial
computational chemistry
… molecular simulation
for industrial chemical
engineering
.. CO2 emission prediction
for automotive engines
July 2015

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• Proposed experiments should include all
participants necessary for the experiment,
which may include HPC and Big Data experts,
HPC Centres or ISVs either already included
within or external to the Fortissimo 2 consortium
• Experiments will employ the Fortissimo HPC
infrastructure using the HPC Centres already
involved in the project.
Open Call Partnering
www.fortissimo-project.eu/calls/partnering
www.fortissimo-project.eu/partners.html

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Proposals:
• (max.) 10-page documents, in English,
• The main section of the proposal should not exceed 10 pages in
length. In addition a proposal description, a cover page and 2 pages
of administrative data must be provided. Thus, with the inclusion of
the cover page and administrative pages, the maximum page count
is 13 pages.
• Proposals will be truncated to this page count and the
independent expert evaluators will only be provided with the
truncated version.
• Electronic submission (PDF, max 5 MB)
(tool access via: www.fortissimo-project.eu/calls/submission.html)
Submission Deadline: 18th May, 2016, at 17:00 Brussels local time
Key Call Details – 1/2

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Funding
• New partners will be included as Third Parties (funding model following the same
principles as for H2020 project beneficiaries)
• Call-1 indicative funding budget for Third Parties = 1.31 M€
• The funding for an individual experiment may not exceed € 250 K (covering
all participants, i.e. both 3rd Parties and existing Fortissimo 2 beneficiaries).
• Max. funding for any Third Party = 150 K€ (across all experiments in which
that Third Party is involved (arising from both Fortissimo 2 open calls)
• The participation of existing Fortissimo 2 beneficiaries across all
experiments selected in Fortissimo 2 Call-1 may not exceed 25% of the total
funding assigned to Fortissimo 2 Call-1.
Expected duration of participation:
1st November 2016 to 30th April 2018
Key Call Details – 2/2

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Call Text (“introduction”)
Guideline for proposers (“proposers guide”)
Proposal Exemplar as Word document (“exemplar”)
Proposer-Evaluator check-list
(“check-list” tab at /calls)
Frequently Asked Questions
(“FAQ” tab at /calls)
Key Call-2 Documents
Documents & info pages:
www.fortissimo-project.eu/calls
kiln_simulation_generator.py
Computational Fluid Dynamics with OpenFOAM®
Fernando Núñez Sánchez directed by Andrés Gómez