Project description
The one-stop-shop for SMEs to access advanced simulation services on a pay-per use base
The importance of advanced simulation to the competitiveness of both large and small companies is well established. The principal objective of Fortissimo is to enable European manufacturing, particularly small to medium enterprises (SMEs), to benefit from the efficiency and competitive advantage inherent in the use of simulation. However, the simulation of, for example, high-pressure gas cylinders, the moulding of plastics or the thermodynamic properties of hazardous materials requires enormous computing power and specialised software tools and services. Generally, large companies, which have a greater pool of skills and resources, find access to advanced simulation easier than SMEs which can neither afford expensive High Performance Computing equipment nor the licensing cost for the relevant tools. This means that SMEs are not able to take advantage of advanced simulation, even though it can clearly make them more competitive. The goal of Fortissimo is to overcome this impasse through the provision of simulation services running on a cloud infrastructure making use of High Performance Computing systems also making appropriate skills and tools available in a distributed, internet-based environment.
Fortissimo will make advanced simulation more easily accessible, particularly to SMEs, through the realisation of a "one-stop shop" where hardware, expertise, applications, visualisation and tools will be easily available and affordable on a pay-per-use basis. In doing this it will create and demonstrate a sustainable commercial ecosystem where actors at all levels in the value chain can realise sufficient commercial benefit to enable that ecosystem to persist independently of EU funding and continue to provide affordable services to manufacturing industry, particularly SMEs.
Fortissimo will be driven by end-user requirements where (~50) business-relevant application experiments will be used to develop, test and demonstrate both the infrastructure and the "one-stop pay-per-use shop". The project participants represent all actors in the value chain. Not only will Fortissimo contribute to the increased competitiveness of European manufacturing industry through the innovative infrastructure that it will develop and test, but it will create commercial opportunities for European Independent Software Vendors, as well as for service and High Performance Computing infrastructure providers, through the creation of a new market for their products and services. Fortissimo places considerable emphasis on the exploitation of opportunities at all levels of the value chain ranging from the end-user to the High Performance Computing infrastructure provider.
Fortissimo involves 1,948.5 months of effort, a total cost of €21.9m and EC funding of €16m over a duration of three years, commensurate with achieving its ambitious goals.
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Call for proposal
FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FOF
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Coordinator
EH8 9YL Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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8020 Graz
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3001 Leuven
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H7N 2Z2 LAVAL DES RAPIDES
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CH-6300 Zug
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8006 Zurich
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4002 Basel
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52062 Aachen
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85622 FELDKIRCHEN
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85579 Neubiberg
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70569 Stuttgart
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53757 Sankt Augustin
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80686 Munchen
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71404 Korb
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76131 Karlsruhe
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01069 Dresden
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28359 Bremen
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33098 Paderborn
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70174 Stuttgart
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70736 FELLBACH
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01307 DRESDEN
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67663 Kaiserslautern
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12489 BERLIN
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08003 BARCELONA
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15705 Santiago De Compostela
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20600 Eibar
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36216 VIGO
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50009 Zaragoza
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36410 Porrino
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08034 Barcelona
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48340 Bizkaia
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15165 BERGONDO A CORUNA
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01170 LEGUTIANO ALAVA
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08034 Barcelona
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50006 ZARAGOZA
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75008 Paris
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38121 Trento
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40019 SANT AGATA BOLOGNESE BO
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20158 Milano
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