POPS - CEA

March 2009
POPS project: PetaOpérations Par Seconde
(Peta-operations per second)
POPS is a project from the world-class SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION competitiveness cluster and is
being led by Bull.
Using FAME2G servers from the NovaScale series developed by BULL, the aim of POPS is to design
systems suitable for a very broad spectrum of high-performance computing requirements. This will
require machines capable of providing 1 million billion floating point operations per second (PetaFlops)
and then to make access to these resources affordable for a broad community of users.
Pilot applications are an integral part of the project, to better take into account the requirements of
future end-users as well as energy saving constraints. These applications must be able to use the
parallel computing power provided by the tens of thousands of processors that will make up these
supercomputers.
Applications will include semantic web search engines, very large life-sciences databases,
optimisation of pricing options, decision making in the field of automotive industry, drug design
support, etc. All application domains will be covered, from industry to fundamental research, from
aeronautics to finance and life sciences, from numerical simulation to optimisation.
Partners involved in the POPS project include:
Bull, CAPS ENTREPRISE, CEA/LIST, CEA/DAM, CS, Dassault-Aviation, EDF, ESI-Group,
EURODECISION, IBBMC - Institut de Biochimie et Biophysique Moléculaire et Cellulaire (CNRS,
University of PARIS SUD 11), IBISC (University of Evry Val d'Essonne), IFP - Institut Francais du
Pétrole (French oil and gas institute), INT/ARTEMIS, IRISA (INRIA, Research Unit at Rennes), ITACA
(University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, CEA DAM), MAS Laboratory - Mathématiques
Appliquées aux Systèmes (Mathematics applied to systems) at Ecole Centrale Paris, Medit,
NewPhenix and Resonate MP4 companies.
For further information see: http://www.pops-systematic.org/