NuPECC MEETING

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NuPECC MEETING

• June 12 - 13, 2009
• Brussels

Directors Report
Achim Richter, ECT and TUD
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Scientific activities at ECT
Workshops in 2009
Collaboration Meeting SFB/TR55 Organizers T.
Hemmert / University of Regensburg A. Schaefer
/ University Regensburg of participants 37
Sign Problems and Complex Actions
Organizers G. Aarts / Swansea University
S. Chandrasekharan / Duke University
of participants 26
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Scientific activities at ECT
Workshops in 2009
Simulations of Low and Intermediate Energy Heavy
Ion Reactions Organizer J. Aichelin /
University of Nantes H. Wolter / University of
Munich of participants 22
Heavy Quarkonia Production in Heavy Ion
Collisions Organizers D. Blaschke /
University Wroclaw Ph. Crochet /
University of Clermond-Ferrand
R. Rapp / Texas A. M. University
of participants 45
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Scientific activities at ECT
Workshops in 2009
The 5th International Pion Nucleon PWA Workshop
and Interpretation of Baryon Resonances Organizer
M. Giannini / University of Genova A. Svarc
/ Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia M.
Sadler / Abilene Christian University, USA L.
Tiator / University of Mainz of participants
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Atomic Effects in Nuclear Excitation and
Decay Organizers P. Walker / University
of Surrey, UK F.J. Currell / Queen's
University, Belfast, UK
Jeff Carroll / Youngstown State University,
USA of participants 42
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Scientific activities at ECT
Planned workshops in 2010
David dEnterria, Ralph Engel, Torbjorn
Sjostrand intention for a workshop in the spring
2010. Title LHC cosmic rays Klaus Jungmann,
Yorick Blumenfeld intention for a workshop in
2010. Title CP and T violation in atoms and
nuclei Carlos Bertulani, Bira van Kolck
intention for a workshop in the summer 2010
(May-August). Title The limits of existence of
light nuclei Johannes Bluemlein, Harald
Fritzsch, Michelangelo Mangano intention for a
workshop in the last week of September 2010.
Title LHC Physics Barbieri Carlo, Wim
Dickhoff, Filomena Nunes, Jorge Piekarewicz
intention for a workshop in the spring or summer
in 2010. Title Nuclear reactions and nucleon
properties in rare isotopes Alexis Diaz-Torres,
Irene Burghardt, Craig C. Martens, Jeff
Tostevin intention for a workshop in the spring
or summer in 2010. Title Decoherence in quantum
dynamical systems
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Scientific activities at ECT
Joint Colloquium with the Physics
Department April 8, 2009
Achim Richter Director of ECT
Playing Billiards with Microwaves Quantum
Manifestations of Classical Chaos
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Scientific activities at ECT
Joint Colloquium with the BEC and the Physics
Department May 18, 2009
Ignacio Cirac Max-Planck-Institut fuer
Quantenoptik
Quantum computers and communications systems
The Joint Colloquium was followed by a Round
Table discussion chaired by Prof. T. Calarco
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Postdocs in 2009
Until
May 31 Dec 31 Dec 31 Dec 31 Dec 31 Sep 30
J.L. Albacete D. Binosi (Qurope / ECT) T.
Calarco (Consultant) L. Scorzato (BEN AURORA
/ ECT) Bingwei Long V. Lenski
From
A. Lisetskyy (Senior Res. Ass. Nucl. Phys)
Resigned
Announced resp. filled
Short list, 1st offer out L. Fortunato C. Ramirez
Senior Res. Ass. Hadron Physics Junior Res.
Ass. from Sep. 1, 2009 Junior Res. Ass. from
Oct. 1, 2009
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Visitors in 2009
Alberto Accardi Andrea Beraudo Jean-Paul
Blaizot Ignacio Cirac Lorenzo Fortunato
Andreas Ipp Marco Panero Claudia Ratti
Dionysis Triantafyllopoulos
Short term (lt1 month)
Paul Hoyer 12 October-20
December Georges Ripka 15 March-30
June
Long term
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Status of BEN

• BEN - a Teraflops supercomputer at ECT - has
  been reviewed by the Scientific Board of ECT at
  its 50th Meeting, January 10, 2009
• No severe problems since then and 7 major
  projects (mainly from the U of Trento) were
  running
• BEN is approaching 5 years of activity and is
  still an important computational resource for the
  community. Some investments would be needed to
  keep it running a few more years
• However, when the AURORA project a Petaflops
  supercomputer will start, BEN will have to be
  shut down, since the access to its room is needed
  to install the first AURORA prototype module

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Outline of the AURORA project

• AURORA is a Petascale computing project for
  science and engineering
• Joint effort between PAT / INFN / FBK-ECT / U of
  Trento / FEM / ATreP / DEI PADUA and industrial
  partners EUROTECH and INTEL
• Recent collaboration with the Russian
  supercomputing project SKIF AURORA and with
  QPACE / Regensburg and PETAQCD / Orsay
• Project is embedded into a large collaboration
• Furthermore, the collaboration involves people
  with experience from the HPC/APE line developed
  by INFN / DESY / ORSAY / EUROTECH

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Present Status of the AURORA project

• Project of Petascale computing for science and
  engineering administered scientifically by ECT
• First discussions about the project with
  participants from the U of Trento and the FBK
  started about 2 years ago
• Since then 3 scientific evaluations one by an
  INFN committee, another one by a committee formed
  by the Scientific Board of the ECT and also one
  by a scientific committee of the PAT
• Finally, last month during a visit of the INFN
  President Professor Petronzio in Trento it was
  agreed upon that the PAT and the INFN prepare an
  agreement how the first phase of AURORA could be
  financed and executed.

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Provisional budget of AURORA
4.4 Mio 4 1.8 2.2 Mio
2 4 18 18 months

• Originally requested
• Envisaged to be granted
• Prototypes
• Personnel, meetings, schools,
• Research positions expected for ECT
• Approval in 2 phases
• Decision still expected within June 09
• Updates of AURORA will be given at each following
  meeting

Prototype of 25 Tflops (at ECT) should be
working
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Budget and Status of Funding
FBK / PAT Outside funds
Budget
In 2007 521 k 633
k 1.154 Mio In 2008 736
k 539 k 1.275 Mio In 2009
Still only a provisional budget of an amount
1.201 Mio
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New strict rules for Workshops

• Presence sheet to be signed each day in addition
  to the presence book
• Three categories of support organizers 100
• participants 70
• participants
• (self supported) lunches 2 dinners
• No travel support

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Budget and Status of Funding
The official fixed start date of the Hadron
Physics 2 project has been 01/01/2009. ECT will
be able to use 450.000 for transnational
access, i.e. any workshop, within the next two
and a half years. First workshops have been
partly financed through Hadron Physics 2. The
Grant Agreement of the Hadron Physics 2 project
has been counter-signed by the European
Commission. Professor C. Guaraldo will send us
shortly the ANNEX IV FORM A - of the Grant
Agreement to compile and to send back.
FP7
Fourteen payment requests have been sent on April
22, 2009. So far, eleven countries have paid
their contribution Belgium (both Flemish and
French speaking part) ,Czech Republic, Denmark,
Finland, France CEA, France CNRS, Germany,
Hungary, Poland, Romania. Seven countries still
have not signed the MoU Austria, Greece, Italy,
Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
Funding agencies
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Status Signatures MOU POA (05/06/09)
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