EU Fusion fOR Iter Applications

• Time frames: 1.01.2008-31.12.2010
• Contract No: FP7 211804
• Project homepage: http://www.euforia-project.eu/

EUFORIA is a project funded by European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) which will provide a comprehensive framework and infrastructure for core and edge transport and turbulence simulation, linking grid and High Performance Computing (HPC), to the fusion modelling community.

The EUFORIA project will enhance the modelling capabilities for ITER sized plasmas through the adaptation, optimization and integration of a set of critical applications for edge and core transport modelling targeting different computing paradigms as needed (serial and parallel grid computing and HPC). Deployment of both a grid service and a High Performance Computing services are essential to the project. A novel aspect is the dynamic coupling and integration of codes and applications running on a set of heterogeneous platforms into a single coupled framework through a workflow engine a mechanism needed to provide the necessary level integration in the physics applications. This strongly enhances the integrated modelling capabilities of fusion plasmas and will at the same time provide new computing infrastructure and tools to the fusion community in general.

The EUFORIA Project consists of two different phases that are partly being developed in parallel from the start of the project to become fully integrated in the later stages.

The first phase is a development and deployment phase consisting of the adaptation and optimization of a selection of codes covering both edge and core physics for grid and HPC environments as appropriate. Inherent within this activity is the deployment of the computational infrastructure where access to grid computing and high performance computing is being developed for the project members. Thus, this stage is mainly directed towards code developers and application developers as it focuses on the detailed implementation and code structures of the physics codes.

To carry this effort beyond the Project members and to the broader fusion modelling community general tutorials on the different aspects of the code adaptation will be provided. The first lessons learned from the development work done on the fusion codes will be made publicly available and direct user support will be provided to new users bringing their codes to the EUFORIA platform. This activity alone will provide a significant step forward in the modelling capacities and capabilities of the fusion modelling community.

The second phase is a standardisation and integration activity and has one technology driven part which develops the technologies and tools to provide user transparent methods for resource allocation and scheduling and dynamic coupling of physics codes and on user and physics driven component where a technology for building complex workflows with the optimized codes as components and standardised data structures and transfer methods are being utilized to expand the physics cases for ITER development.

Key components here are the adaptation of a common project wide data structure for edge and core simulations, the adaptation of a workflow orchestration tool and generic tools for data exploration and visualisation. This second part of the project is mainly directed towards providing the means for building a broader user community for the code packages residing on the platform and in the somewhat longer perspective provides the stat for the adaptation of a suite of community operated tools.