Promotion of Supercomputers and Petacomputing Technology (PROSPECT)

Quadrics has joined alliances that promote technical developments and partnerships that promote HPC technology both within Europe and across the world.

PROSPECT is a European HPC alliance formed in 2007 and joined by companies like Intel, IBM, Quadrics and ParTec, HPC facilities like Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Cambridge Scientific Computing Centre, the Deutsche Wetterdienst, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, the Leibniz Rechenzentrum and several universities. PROSPECT's mission is to closely collaborate with the 'Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe' (PRACE) initiative to establish a European HPC technology platform, to define research and development priorities, time frames and action plans in supercomputing for the benefit of Europe's growth, competitiveness and sustainability. Quite a few development projects have been created by the PROSPECT partners with the goal to advance technologies for the multi-Petaflop/s era.