History

E-CAM is a partnership of 16 CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculairenodes, 3 PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) Centres, 12 industrial partners and 1 Centre for Industrial Computing (Hartree Centre for HPC in Industry).

E-CAM sits within the CECAM scientific community. CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique and Moleculaire) was founded in Paris in 1969 by Dr. Carl Moser and is devoted to the promotion of fundamental research on advanced computational methods and to their application to important problems in frontier areas of science and technology. Today CECAM is structured as 18 trans European nodes (plus one node in Israel) with its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.

E-CAM wants to address deficiencies in:

  • Software: We need algorithmic innovation as well as refactoring of legacy code
  • Human Expertise: we need to train more computational scientists
  • Metadata: We need easier and better resource discovery and management

Partners

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (CECAM HQ) – Coordinator
University College Dublin, Ireland (CECAM-IRL Node)
Free University of Berlin, Germany (CECAM-DE-MMS Node)
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (CECAM-IT-SIMUL Node)
Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France (CECAM-FR-MOSER Node)
Technical University of Vienna, Austria (CECAM-AT Node)
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (CECAM-UK-JCMAXWELL Node)
Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Germany (CECAM-DE-SMSM Node)
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France (CECAM-FR-RA Node)
Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany (CECAM-DE-JUELICH Node)
University of Barcelona, Spain (CECAM-ES Node)
Hartree Centre, STFC, United Kingdom (CECAM-UK-HARTREE Node)
Scuola Internazionale Superiore Di Trieste, Italy (CECAM-IT-SIDE Node)
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (CECAM-NL Node)
Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy (CECAM-IT-SMART Node)
Aalto University, Finland (CECAM-FI Node)
CSC-IT Centre for Science Ltd, Finland
Irish Centre for High-End Computing, Ireland

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