Project NAAICE (‘Network Attached Accelerators In heterogeneous Computing Environments’) develops architectures and communication concepts for energy-efficient High Performance Computing. The focus is the offloading of computationally intensive workloads to energy-efficient accelerators such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The acceleration and energy-saving potential of this approach is measured based on computationally intensive simulations of reactive transport performed with the research software POET.
POET, developed at the GFZ in cooperation with the University of Potsdam, combines classical numerics and innovative AI-based surrogate models for the simulation of chemical interactions between fluids and rocks in the subsurface, and is used in particular for the safety assessment of nuclear waste disposal over millions of years.

Partner

• Prof. Dr. Bettina Schnor
  • Institute for Informatics and Computational Science, University of Potsdam
• Dr. Steffen Christgau
  • Zuse Institute Berlin
  • Department of Supercomputing
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Benno Stabernack
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications
  • Heinrich Hertz Institute Berlin
• Dr. Marco De Lucia
  • Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
  • GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
• Tobias Jaeuthe
  • PERFACCT Performance Acceleration Technologies GmbH Potsdam

Duration

• September 2022 – August 2025 (36 month)

Funding code GFZ: 16ME0625