Collaborating on a strategic research innovation and deployment agenda to prepare for the pending era of large-scale data analysis.
The High Energy Physics (HEP) and Radio Astronomy (RA) communities both face immense computing and data management challenges, rely on complex workflows, and require portability of solutions across systems.
In the SPECTRUM project, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre or Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) aims to understand the algorithmic and hardware demands of the HEP and RA communities to jointly work on a strategic research innovation and deployment agenda and, with this, to prepare for the pending era of large-scale data analysis. A long history of joint projects brought FZJ and the HEP and RA communities closer together:
FZJ is hosting an RA archive of the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), is part of the “Particles Universe NuClei and Hadrons for the NFDI” (PUNCH4NFDI) consortium, and has been working with the HEP community on AI technologies for particle collision analysis. These activities drive fruitful collaboration in SPECTRUM and inspire targeted strategy development.
"I’m very much excited to be part of the SPECTRUM project as it will broaden my view on the requirements of the compute- and data-intensive research fields of High-Energy Physics and Radioastronomy. I’m really looking forward to elaborate strategies to make these communities work closer together with the field of High-Performance Computing and to lay out a strategy for computing and data processing in the sense of efficiency increase and energy reduction in the era of Exascale computing.”
Andreas Lintermann, Leader Simulation and Data Lab 'Fluids & Solids Engineering' at FZJ
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