ИНСТИТУТ ПО ИНФОРМАЦИОННИ И

КОМУНИКАЦИОННИ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ

БЪЛГАРСКА АКАДЕМИЯ НА НАУКИТЕ

Institute of Information and Institute of Information and Communication TechnologiesCommunication Technologies

(IICT(IICT –– BAS)BAS)

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CONTENTS CONTENTS

1. Strategic targets and mission2. Structure of the R&D activities3. Bulgarian NSF & FP74. Horizon 2020

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5. CoE on Mathematical Modelling and Advanced Computing

6. OP Science and Education for Smart Growth

1. 1. Strategic targets and mission Strategic targets and mission

Strategic targetsStrategic targets: :

Sustainable development of the institute as a national leader in the information and communication technologies, with internationally visible and recognized results.

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MissionMission::

To perform basic and applied research in the fields of computer science and information and communication technologies, as well as to develop interdisciplinary innovations.

2. Structure 2. Structure of the of the R&D activitiesR&D activities

The research and development activitiesThe research and development activities of IICT during 2015 are performed into the framework of the following main projects:

- 15 funded by the budget subsidiary

- 9 supported by the Bulgarian Science Fund

- 6 funded by the OP „Development of the Competitiveness of the

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- 6 funded by the OP „Development of the Competitiveness of the Bulgarian Economics“ and 1 by the Bulgarian Innovation Fund

- 17 international projects funded by EC

- 18 R&D contracts directly with industrial enterprise, 3 of them with foreign companies

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Rules of Monitoring and Evaluation of R&D Activities of Universities, Research Organizations and National Science Fund, Ministry of Education and Science, September 2015

• Scientific Results:

U = (A+B+10C+D+G+H+F)/N

A – publications in Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar G - citations

B – publications wit IF or SJR H – sum of individual H-factors

C – publications in TOP 10% journals F - patens

D – monographs N – full time research staff

Publications and CitationsPublications and Citations

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33. . Bulgarian NSF & FP7Bulgarian NSF & FP7

The successful participation of IICT in the EC Framework Programs has a strategic role for the sustainable development of the human potential and research infrastructure.

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research infrastructure.

During 2015, the research teamsfrom IICT ИИКТ have worked on17 international projects European projects.

Funding in MEUR for the whole FP7 of most Funding in MEUR for the whole FP7 of most successful Bulgarian participantssuccessful Bulgarian participants: :

Sofia UniversitySofia University –– 8.6, 8.6, IICTIICT –– 6.16.1, and, and Plovdiv Plovdiv UniversityUniversity –– 2.52.5

CoE on Supercomputing Applications CoE on Supercomputing Applications

Consortium: IICT – BAS (coordinator), SU, TU – Sofia, MU – Sofia, IM –BAS, NIGGG - BAS

Infrastructure: supercomputer IBM Blue Gene/P at NSCC, HPC Cluster at IICT – BAS

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Target:: to create a critical mass of highly qualified scientists

Core team: : more than 80 participants, 56% of them - PhD students and young researchers

Advanced Computing for Advanced Computing for Innovations: AComIn, Innovations: AComIn, FP7FP7--REGPOTREGPOT

Major Objectives: Major Objectives: (i) Strengthening the human potential, (ii) Setting up a Smart Lab, (iii) Organization and training of user communities.

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Supercomputing SimulationsSupercomputing Simulations

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Modelling of hepatic tumor ablation; cerebral aneurisms; molecular dynamics.

Advanced Advanced DigitalizationsDigitalizations

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Infrared Thermography: microelectronics; industrial furnace; welding with nanoparticles in the electrode; energy efficiency of buildings.

4. Horizon 20204. Horizon 2020

First onFirst on--going proposalsgoing proposals::

1. “Centre of Excellence for Mathematical Modeling an d Advanced Computing” (MMAC); Coordinator: IICT-BAS; Consortium – 3 partners; H2020-WIDESPREAD-2014-1

2. “Supercomputing Expertise for SmAll and Medium Enterprise Network” (SESAME-NET), Coordinator : High Performance Computing Wales, UK; Consortium – 10 partners; H2020-EINFRA-2014-2

3. “Engaging the EGI Community towards an Open Science Commons” (EGI-

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3. “Engaging the EGI Community towards an Open Science Commons” (EGI-Engage); Coordinator: EGI.eu, Nederland; Consortium - 43 partners; H2020-EINFRA-2014-2

4. “Virtual Research Environment for Regional Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Southeast Europe and Eastern Mediterranean” (VI-SEEM), Coordinator: Greek Research and Technology Network; Consortium - 15 partners; H2020-EINFRA-2015-1

5. “Transnational Cooperation among ICT NCPs” (Idealist 2018); Coordinator: MATIMOP, Israeli Industry Center for Research & Development; Consortium – 32 partners; H2020-ICT-2014-1

Horizon 2020 Teaming CoE

CoECoE for Mathematical Modelling and Advanced Computin g in for Mathematical Modelling and Advanced Computing i n Science and Engineering Science and Engineering -- MMAC MMAC

Coordinator: IICT - BAS

Consortium:

1. Institute of Information and Communication Techno logies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IICT – BAS)

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Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IICT – BAS)

2. Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgari an Academy of Sciences (IMI – BAS)

3. Vienna University of Technology (VUT)

3.1. Institute of Analysis and Scientific Computing

3.2. Institute of Mathematical Methods in Economics

3.3. Institute of Microelectronics

� Institute of Information and Communication Technolo gies, at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - coordinator

� Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bul garian Academy of Sciences

� Vienna University of Technology

MMAC: PartnersMMAC: Partners

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Overall objective:

• To establish a CoE MMAC in Science and Engineering hosted in Bulgaria,with a long term horizon of cooperation between the Vienna University ofTechnology, and the Institute of Information and CommunicationTechnologies and the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at theBulgarian Academy of Sciences.

� Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformatics:

� Institute of Analysis and Scientific Computing

� Institute of Statistics and Mathematical Methods in Economics

MMAC: Participation of TU MMAC: Participation of TU -- WienWien

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Economics

� Faculty of electro engineering and Information Technologies:

� Institute of Microelectronics

TU – Wien team includes 5 full professors, 1 of them – Member of AAN.In progress : Faculty of Informatics (Institute of Software Technologies and Interactive Systems), Vienna Scientific Cluster.

� KA1. Mathematical Modeling

� KA2. Advanced Computing

� KA3. Content Technologies, Intelligent Interfaces and Knowledge Processing

� KA4. Flagship Applications in Science and Engineering

MMAC: Key AreasMMAC: Key Areas

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� New Materials, Structures and Phenomena

� Environmental Protection

� Biomedical Engineering and Technologies

Research Research InfrastructureInfrastructure

HPC Cluster at IICT

Top500 Rank - 332

Avitohol - Cluster Platform SL230s Gen8,

Intel Xeon E5-2650v2 8C 2.6GHz

Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard

Cores 20 700

Vienna Scientific Cluster

Top500 Rank - 111

VSC-3 - Oil blade server, Intel Xeon E5-

2650v2 8C 2.6GHz

Manufacturer ClusterVision

Cores 32 768

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Cores 20 700

Interconnection FDR Infiniband

Theoretical Peak

Performance

412.32 TFlop/s

Linpack

Performance

222.029 TFlop/s

Operational System Linux Red Had

Cores 32 768

Interconnection Intel TrueScale

Infiniband

Theoretical Peak

Performance

681.57 TFlop/s

Linpack

Performance

596.01 TFlop/s

Operational System Scientific Linux

The OP is harmonized with the Bulgarian Innovation Strategy for Smart Specialisation.

5. OP 5. OP Science and Science and EducationEducation

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• Manufacturing and in particular Fabless and new approaches for design and assembling.

• ICT approaches in machine building, medicine, and creative industries, including digitalisation of cultural and historical heritage, recreation and education games, imbedded software.

• 3D digitalisation, visualisation and prototyping.

• Big Data, Grid and Cloud Technologies.

Priority Topics in Informatics and ICTPriority Topics in Informatics and ICT

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• Big Data, Grid and Cloud Technologies.

• Wireless sensor networks and wireless communication/control.

• Language technologies.

• Web, hybrid and native applications, web-based applications for creation end utilization of new cervices and products.

• Usage of new opportunities related to outsourcing and ICT-based cervices and systems.

One Centre of Excellence and two Centres of Compete nce are expected to be funded.

Infrastructure:

• Both CoE and CoC are conceptually oriented/motivated by the research infrastructure component.

• The European scale of Research Infrastructure is defined in the National Roadmap where IICT is leader of the National Centre for HPC and Distributed Computing.

Key RequirementsKey Requirements

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Scientific Excellence:

• The scientific excellence will be one of the leading criteria in the evaluation of proposals for CoE.

• The world level is the only basis for ranking of scientific achievements in academic community.

• There are commonly accepted measurable indicators for evaluation of scientific publications, including the particular weight of Top 10% journals.

• Our policy is concerned with a sustainable upgrade of the existing HPC infrastructure of IICT.

• The development of the HPC systems is aligned with the concepts of ETP4HPC: European Technology Platform for High-Performance Computing – Achieving HPC leadership in Europe.

• The performance of such systems positions Bulgaria as an HPC leader in

Advanced Research Advanced Research IInfrastructurenfrastructure

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• The performance of such systems positions Bulgaria as an HPC leader in South-Eastern Europe.

• The currently established HPC cluster consists of 150 computational servers HP SL250s Gen8, equipped with two Intel Xeon E5-2650v2 CPUs and two Intel Xeon Phi 7120P coprocessors, 64GB RAM, two 500 GB hard drives, interconnected with non-blocking FDR Infiniband running at 56 Gbps line speed. The peak performance of the system is estimated at 410.82 Teraflops in double precision.

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