The Mont-Blanc Project: First Phase Successfully Finished

With the ever-increasing energy demands and prices and the need for uninterrupted services, data centre operators must find solutions to increase energy efficiency and reduce costs. Running from October 2011 to June 2015, the aim of the European project Mont-Blanc [1] has been to address this issue by developing an approach to Exascale computing based on embedded powerefficient technology. The main goals of the project were to i) build an HPC prototype using currently available energy-efficient embedded technology, ii) design a Next Generation system to overcome the limitations of the built prototype and iii) port a set of representative Exascale applications to the system. This project was coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and had a budget of over 14 million EUR, including over 8 million EUR funded by the European Commission.