Service announcements Main navigation Open menu What is the EuroHPC Competence Center? EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is now facilitating the set-up of National Competence Centers in every partner-state to provide permanent support to Big Industry and SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises) future users. Competence Centers will amongst other activities, support industry users to adopt or increase HPC (high Performance computing) usage. In Norway, it is Sigma2 who is leading the Norwegian Competence Centre, with SINTEF and NORCE as partners. Mastering HPC/HPDA in all its dimensions is decisive for European Industry in order to stay competitive in the global market, thus EuroHPC prepares to contribute in several areas: Transfer knowledge between research and European Industry Develop a co-design approach between technology providers and advanced users Take into account inputs from Industry Community, listing the specific needs and requirements Support SME´s in changing their applications to run on highly parallel environments The Norwegian EuroHPC Competence Center partners . NORCE SINTEF UNINETT Sigma2 Who are using HPC today? Science and research organizations have a strong history in using HPC within medicine, astronomy, microbiology, physics, chemistry, aerospace and so forth. There are also many commercial industries that have HPC as a core function within their business. Oil and gas exploration, where processing vast amount of data from seismic and CSEM seabed logging is key to understand where to invest in field developments. Semiconductor and electronics development, where using HPC to simulate the product´s functionality and finding faults prior to enter physical production, substantially reduces time to market and cost, as well as enabling development in the nanoscale area. Financial sector, where analysing vast amount of data and modelling scenarios help understand risk, forecast changes, make robotic decisions and detect fraud in real-time. Automotive and aerospace industry, where calculating and modelling construction strength and aerodynamics help develop more efficient and secure transportation. Entertainment industry, where CGI help producing scenes and movies that would be too expensive or dangerous to make without HPC. Life science, where using HPC help reducing development time for new medicines and allow data analysis of extremely large datasets. What are the benefits of Supercomputing? High Performance Computing (HPC), also known as supercomputing, involves thousands of computer processors working in parallel to analyze billions of pieces of data in real time, performing calculations thousands of times faster than a normal computer, and solving problems too large for normal computers to handle. This enables the opportunity to tap into larger amount of data that earlier were too large or complex to make sense of or see the patterns, simulate or model large-scale scenarios where running the same simulation with all potential inputs can show a statistic likelihood of the various scenarios. Undiscovered opportunities for the industry While there are several applications for HPC in the industry today, there are still many untapped or undiscovered opportunities, where the Norwegian EuroHPC Competence Center is ready to help Norwegian SME´s to find that new business opportunities or to gain business intelligence that can provide them a competitive advantage in their industry. Relevant information International collaboration HPC reference network PRACE - Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe SHAPE - SME HPC Adoption Programme in Europe News: Are you an advanced HPC user or expert? Service: Advanced user support Latest news from the Norwegian EuroHPC Competence Center THURSDAY, 15/4/2021 Sigma2: CPU Workshop for users of AMD-hardware TUESDAY, 16/2/2021 EuroHPC: EuroHPC Summit Week ALL NEWS FOR THE EUROHPC COMPETENCE CENTER UNINETT Sigma2 AS ORG. NO. 814 864 332 E-MAIL sigma2@uninett.no MAIL Postboks 4769 Torgard, 7465 Trondheim INVOICE EHF: 814 864 332 regnskap@uninett.no VISIT Abels gate 5 7030 Trondheim Footer About Hardware Status News Euro Competence Center Social LinkedIn Twitter Facebook SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER I agree to receive Sigma2 newsletters. We use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience By clicking the Accept button, you agree to us doing so. More info ACCEPT NO, THANKS