High-performance computing is being expanded – University of Innsbruck
Six months after the presentation of Quantum Austria, the first projects, funded by the “NextGenerationEU” development and resilience plan, were presented in July. The FFG has approved a far-reaching high-performance computing project worth 20 million euros, in which the University of Innsbruck is playing a leading role.
Overall, within the framework of Quantum Austria 107 million euros from the recovery and resilience plan Next GenerationEU ready. 20 million euros will be invested in the expansion of national HPC capacities. The joint project Multi-Site Computer Austria (MUSICA) under the consortium leadership of the Vienna Scientific Cluster aims to build up a powerful additional research infrastructure in the field of high-performance computing in Austria in the coming years. “The University of Innsbruck will be one of the three locations of MUSICA,” says Ulrike Tanzer, Vice Rector for Research. “This is evidence of the trust that the Austrian HPC community has in our research focus and the ZID, and is an important step in further strengthening the HPC skills of our scientists.” In Innsbruck, another project is also becoming more established Quantum computer that will be connected to the MUSICA HPC network.
Quantum Austria runs until 2026
Researchers, universities, non-university research institutes and companies in the field of quantum research and quantum technologies can choose from existing offers from the FFG and FWF as part of the Quantum Austria funding campaign. Funds are available, for example, to research basic technologies for quantum systems or to set up expanded laboratories and technical equipment. At the same time, Austria’s capacities in the field of high-performance and quantum computing are to be further expanded. The realization and implementation of the funding initiative is accompanied by an international scientific advisory board. As part of the initial funding decisions, three basic research projects at the University of Innsbruck were also approved:
ESPRIT program of the FWF
Simon BaierInstitute for Experimental Physics
CooLQuanD: Cooling of Levitated Quantum Spin Diamonds
Arkadiusz KOSIORInstitute for Theoretical Physics
Quantum dynamics of many-particle cavity QED systems
1000 ideas program of the FWF
Brandon FUREYInstitute for Experimental Physics
Quantum error correction with single molecules