CIMENT project

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CIMENT began in 1998 with a coordinated response from Grenoble (INPG/UJF) to the call for projects involving mesoscopic high-performance computing equipment at €300k (2MF), based on large scientific communities grouped around shared themes and machines (the model is that of the Observatoire’s high-performance computing service, , set up by Pierre Valiron). Launch of the MIRAGE project (modelling for the environment and climate), development of a strong partnership with researchers in distributed computing. Between 2000 and 2007, the CPER CIMENT and the allocation of an IR (Laurence Viry, digitiser) enabled us to develop a policy of coordinated equipment and resources, (PhyNum, creation of the CECIC, scientific events, doctoral training courses and seminars.

At the turn of 2005, ACI GRID enabled us to build the CIMENT GRID grid, one of the few campus grids in France. Then CIMENT was given a new IR (Bruno Bzeznik, distributed HPC systems) who divided his time between system management of the network’s machines and support for research in distributed computing. Laurence Viry provided support for research at the LJK and, since its creation, at MaiMoSiNE.

CIMENT has been labelled by the RTRA nanoscience ‘HPC simulation platform numériques’ and has received its support. The CEA is represented on the CIMENT Steering Committee ( ). Since 2007, the CIMENT PPF (UJF/INP) has been involved in the CPER CIRA project (Calcul Intensif en Rhône Alpes, coordinated by Laurent Desbat) with a FLCHP/CIMENT partnership and the development of simulation centres (Institut Blaise Pascal in Lyon and MaiMoSiNE in Grenoble). The two main regional CIRA centres, Lyon and Grenoble, are partners in equip@meso.

The men and women of CIMENT
Frédéric Audra Pierre Neyron
Françoise Berthoud Franck Pérignon
Bruno Bzeznik Olivier Richard
Romain Cavagna Alain Rivet
Emmanuel Chaljub Françoise Roch
Laurent Desbat Pierre Valiron
Jean-Daniel Dubois Laurence Viry
Pierre Girard

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