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HPC - Spoke 7 - Centro Nazionale HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing – Spoke 7

Duration:
01/09/2022 - 31/08/2025
Principal investigator(s):
Project type:
PNRR – Mission 4
Funding body:
MINISTERO (MUR)
Project identification number:
CN00000013
PoliTo role:
Partner

Abstract

The spoke Materials & molecular sciences aims to: Strengthen the Italian leadership on a global scale in the development, implementation, maintenance, and free dissemination of key enabling software technologies for the multi-scale simulation of materials and molecular systems; Optimise and enhance the scope of existing high-performance computer codes, to stay at the leading edge of the main scientific, industrial, and societal challenges in our country, in the fields of materials and molecular sciences; Enable the optimal access to the HPC infrastructure of the National Centre, for the good of the entire national research community, with emphasis on the transition to heterogeneous energy-savvy hardware architectures, based on specialised processing units and aimed at exascale performance; Steer the efforts of Italian materials and molecular modelling communities towards the key enabling technologies identified by the PNRR.

Structures

Partners

  • C.N.R. - CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE - Coordinator
  • POLITECNICO DI TORINO - AMMINISTRAZIONE CENTRALE

Keywords

ERC sectors

PE3_4 - Electronic properties of materials, surfaces, interfaces, nanostructures, etc.
PE4_13 - Theoretical and computational chemistry
PE4_6 - Chemical physics
PE6_12 - Scientific computing, simulation and modelling tools
PE8_8 - Materials engineering (metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, etc.)
PE8_2 - Chemical engineering, technical chemistry
PE8_4 - Computational engineering

Sustainable Development Goals

Obiettivo 8. Incentivare una crescita economica duratura, inclusiva e sostenibile, un’occupazione piena e produttiva ed un lavoro dignitoso per tutti|Obiettivo 9. Costruire un'infrastruttura resiliente e promuovere l'innovazione ed una industrializzazione equa, responsabile e sostenibile

Budget

Total cost: € 325,938,979.26
Total contribution: € 319,938,979.26
PoliTo total cost: € 684,450.00
PoliTo contribution: € 684,450.00

Communication activities