Welcome to the EPSN Project
The purpose of the EPSN project is to design and provide a software environment for both code coupling and M-by-N computational steering of HPC legacy parallel/distributed simulations [big poster].
Our project is divided in two main parts:
- EPSN that concentrates more on computational steering and on-line visualization;
- RedGRID that focuses on code coupling and more precisely on parallel data redistribution.
EPSN: A Computational Steering Environment for Numerical Simulations
The purpose of EPSN library is to provide a software environment for
the steering of parallel and distributed numerical simulations. This
software environment should combine the facilities of virtual reality
with the capabilities of existing high performance simulations. The
simple instrumentation of a legacy simulation code enables the
end-user to on-line visualize the intermediate results and to
interact with the simulation considering this visual feedback.
RedGRID: A Parallel Data Redistribution Framework
RedGRID is a software environment dedicated to the coupling of parallel codes, and more precisely to the redistribution of complex parallel data objects such as structured grids, particles and unstructured meshes.
Acknowledgments
The EPSN project is currently supported by the ANR program (grant number ANR-05-MMSA-0008-03), called MASSIM, and has been supported in the past by the ACI-GRID program from the french Ministry of Research (grant number PPL02-03).