A consortium including the University of Iceland participated successfully in the European Commission's Horizon 2020 research program call FET PROACTIVE – HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING: Co-design of HPC systems and applications. The University of Iceland's team is lead by Helmut Neukirchen together with Morris Riedel. The secured funding for University of Iceland (387 860 EUR for three years project duration starting from 1st July 2017) will be, among others, used to hire a researcher who will perform ambitious research by providing a scientific parallel applications from the field of machine learning for extreme scale/pre-exascale high-performance computing, i.e. creating next-generation software for the next-generation supercomputing hardware.

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