Projects

Multi-Site Computer Austria (MUSICA)

The MUSICA (Multi-Site Computer Austria) project, a collaboration of 7 Austrian universities funded by the FFG and the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Research, will transform the existing high-performance computing infrastructure in Austria into a federated multi-site system. This will enable a significant expansion of the HPC user community in Austria, both in terms of size and scientific scope. The resilience of a multi-site system (located in Vienna, Linz and Innsbruck) will also enable applications with critical availability requirements. Support for HPDA/ML/AI and compatibility with the European HPC ecosystem, as well as preparation for coupling to a quantum computer (QC) are other important project goals.

High-Performance integrated Quantum Computing (HPQC)

Quantum computers (QCs) hold the promise of tackling some of the world's growing challenges, from the development of new materials to cost-effective fertilisers and new methods of carbon capture. However, for end users interested in using quantum devices, there are no frameworks that allow non-specialists to implement solutions for their own use cases for novel quantum computing hardware. Building on the existing QC and HPC infrastructure in Innsbruck, the consortium will develop a dedicated quantum acceleration ecosystem, connecting QC and HPC nodes in such a way that newly developed quantum-aware code acceleration frameworks can run proof-of-concept use cases on the hybrid infrastructure. It will benchmark the quality of code acceleration, frameworks, libraries and the holistic hybrid QC/HPC infrastructure by implementing and evaluating key applications in QC and HPC. In addition, improvements to the QC hardware will aim to achieve performance levels at the edge for QC to provide a computational advantage over HPC systems.

Quantum Accelerated Computing Infrastructure (QACI)

The aim of QACI is to create an integrated, hybrid quantum and high-performance computing (QC/HPC) infrastructure by acquiring a QC system, integrating it into an HPC facility and using appropriate interfaces for efficient exchange of workloads between them. This infrastructure will be made available at the Austrian level to facilitate cross-disciplinary research and teaching activities in computer science, physics, mathematics and beyond. 

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