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FZ-Jülich Modelling and Simulation at Supercomputing Centre (JSC)

[Cheetah Partner]
  • Large-scale, computation-intensive material and device simulations for photovoltaic applications

 

Technical Info

MAIN FEATURES:

  • General purpose parallel SMP-cluster JUROPA
  • 2,208 computational nodes, each with 2 quad-core Nehalem-EP processors
  • 207 Tflops peak performance
  • File server and disk storage capabilities
  • Access to pre-installed software packages on JUROPA for various applications in quantum chemistry, physics, engineering and visualisation
  • Technical support from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre staff for porting, benchmarking and optimization of application codes on the specific supercomputing architecture in close collaboration with the applicant
  • Access to experimental material data for the calibration of models, provided by the IEK5-Photovoltaics at Forschungszentrum Jülich

 

LIMITATIONS OR CONSTRAINTS:

Computational power of 25,000 Tflop-hours (where 1 Tflop hour = 10.67 Node hours = 85.36 Core hours) can be provided subject to the regulations of Infrastucture access and upon a thorough review process considering both scientific quality of the proposal and the compliance with the technical requirements, which are:

  • Minimum number of cores per job: 8 (1 node)
  • Maximum RAM per node (8 cores): 22 GB
  • Maximum 512 nodes
  • Proof of scaling under production conditions with I/O

 

TYPICAL SERVICES OR RESULTS:

Efficient calculation of computationally demanding simulations on a high-end supercomputing infrastructure

 

Participation to Research Projects:

  • Optical simulations of realistic solar cell structures (including rough interfaces, nanoparticles, plasmonic effects, etc) via rigorous solutions of Maxwell’s equations in 3D
  • Optoelectronic simulation of novel solar cell devices with nanostructured absorbers (quantum wells, wires and dots)
  • Modelling of material growth in thin-film solar cell devices
  • Ab-initio investigation of defect formation in solar cell devices, e.g. at interfaces under illumination, etc.

 

Contacts:

Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)

Jülich CECAM Node

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