CERFACS is a research organization that aims to develop advanced methods for the numerical simulation and the algorithmic solution of large scientific and technological problems of interest for research as well as industry, and that requires access to the most powerful computers presently available.
CERFACS has seven shareholders (CNES, the French Space Agency; EADS France, European Aeronautic and Defence Space Company; EDF, Electricité de France; Météo-France, the French meteorological service; ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab; SAFRAN, an international high-technology group, TOTAL, a multinational energy compagny).
CERFACS hosts interdisciplinary teams, both for research and advanced training that are comprised of: physicists, applied mathematicians, numerical analysts, and software engineers.
Approximately 110 people work at CERFACS, including more than 90 researchers and engineers, coming from 10 differents countries. They work on specific projects in seven main research areas: parallel algorithms, code coupling, aerodynamics, combustion, climate and environment, data assimilation, and electromagnetism.
Part of the research activity of CERFACS is associated with CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, www.cnrs.fr), as an "Unité de Recherche Associée" (SUC, URA 1875). CERFACS participates in the TVE (Terre Vivante et Espace, www.omp.obs-mip.fr/tve pole of laboratories. It is also a member of RTRA/STAE (Réseau Thématique de Recherche Avancée "Sciences et Technologies pour l'Aéronautique et l'Espace", www.fondation-stae.net/fr/, see also www.cerfacs.fr/RTRA-STAE.mpg) and participates in the activities of AESE (Pôle de Compétitivité "Aéronautique, Espace et Systèmes Embarqués", www.aerospace-valley.com).
CERFACS has seven shareholders (CNES, the French Space Agency; EADS France, European Aeronautic and Defence Space Company; EDF, Electricité de France; Météo-France, the French meteorological service; ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab; SAFRAN, an international high-technology group, TOTAL, a multinational energy compagny).
CERFACS hosts interdisciplinary teams, both for research and advanced training that are comprised of: physicists, applied mathematicians, numerical analysts, and software engineers.
Approximately 110 people work at CERFACS, including more than 90 researchers and engineers, coming from 10 differents countries. They work on specific projects in seven main research areas: parallel algorithms, code coupling, aerodynamics, combustion, climate and environment, data assimilation, and electromagnetism.
Part of the research activity of CERFACS is associated with CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, www.cnrs.fr), as an "Unité de Recherche Associée" (SUC, URA 1875). CERFACS participates in the TVE (Terre Vivante et Espace, www.omp.obs-mip.fr/tve pole of laboratories. It is also a member of RTRA/STAE (Réseau Thématique de Recherche Avancée "Sciences et Technologies pour l'Aéronautique et l'Espace", www.fondation-stae.net/fr/, see also www.cerfacs.fr/RTRA-STAE.mpg) and participates in the activities of AESE (Pôle de Compétitivité "Aéronautique, Espace et Systèmes Embarqués", www.aerospace-valley.com).
INRIA and CERFACS create a Joint Laboratory.
On November 9th, the INRIA Chairman, Michel COSNARD, and the CERFACS Director, Jean-Claude ANDRE, signed a convention creating a joint laboratory between the two establishments. This laboratory, whose Director is Jean ROMAN and whose Scientific Advisor is Iain DUFF, is located in Bordeaux and Toulouse. In its present first phase it will address the development of new algorithmic methods for massive parallelism and hybrid architectures. See the press announcement and J.C. ANDRE's speech.
International workshop on "multiphysics and unsteady flows for aircraft" at CERFACS in september 2010
CERFACS, jointly with ONERA, AIRBUS, SAFRAN, ERCOFTAC and the European Commission will organize the first MUSAF meeting (Multiphysics and Unsteady Simulations for Aeronautical Flows) at CERFACS in Toulouse (France), on September 27 - 29, 2010.
The conference will focus on coupled problems around aircraft (aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, fluid structure) but also within engines (noise, combustion, instabilities, coupling between compressor, chamber and turbine) and on the use of High Performance Computing (HPC) to address these issues. By bringing together the communities working on the different elements of aircraft and engine designs, the most important issues in the flield of HPC in these fields will be adressed.
The MUSAF programme will be available at the end of October 2009.
http://www.cerfacs.fr/musaf
The conference will focus on coupled problems around aircraft (aerodynamics, aeroacoustics, fluid structure) but also within engines (noise, combustion, instabilities, coupling between compressor, chamber and turbine) and on the use of High Performance Computing (HPC) to address these issues. By bringing together the communities working on the different elements of aircraft and engine designs, the most important issues in the flield of HPC in these fields will be adressed.
The MUSAF programme will be available at the end of October 2009.
http://www.cerfacs.fr/musaf
