LinkSCEEM Meetings
The meeting will include presentations from representatives of CaSToRC, LinkSCEEM and local scientific institutions. Current and potential HPC users will present their work and projects, and the related computational needs. The meeting will conclude with a round-table discussion that will focus on the required computational resources and connectivity.
LinkSceem General Information
The Cyprus Institute is preparing to build a Computation-based Science and Technology Research Centre that will include a high-performance computing facility whose scale is expected to be in the tens of teraflops. The CaSToRC will be a regional HPC centre of significant size designed primarily to serve the needs of Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean region, with an associated research and educational centre devoted to supercomputing applications in science and technology. The LinkSCEEM Support Action aims to ensure that in its planning and early development phases the CaSToRC develops strong anchors in both the European ICT infrastructure and the Eastern Mediterranean scientific community, thereby helping to build scientific and technological bridges between Europe and the Middle East and to narrow the digital gap between the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western World. Planned actions include the assessment of needs for computational resources within the scientific community of Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean, the coordination of HPC resources in the region, the planning of the access of users to facilities both in the region and EU-wide, a prospective study of the amelioration of the network connectivity in the region, the development of research and educational programmes in computational science, and dissemination and outreach, through the organisation of an International Conference, of several users workshops and various other actions.
LinkSCEEM General Objectives:
The objectives of the LinkSCEEM Support Action are the following:
1. The integration of the Cyprus Institute CaSToRC into the European high performance computing and computational science environment.
2. The organization of remote and trans-national access by virtual communities of users from the Eastern Mediterranean region.
3. The execution of a feasibility study for the creation of a regional research network interconnecting the Eastern Mediterranean countries with each other and with Cyprus.
4. Outreach activities, in order to ensure the dissemination of the outcome of studies and actions included in the LinkSCEEM project among decision makers and the research and educational communities.