funding.html

<h1>Funding, roadmap &amp; support</h1>


<p>
Peano evolved from my Ph.D. project and was used by a couple of research projects throughout the years. 
Because of its open source license/paradigm, work from these projects helped to maintain and extend the software. 
The most significant grants are enlisted below. 
Because of the software's non-commercial character, there is no real support available: this is not a community service but an active research topic and enabler of its own.
However, the maillist provides a good starting point to ask for help, there is a quick starter available, and we are always open for discussions on future features and fixes, as we appreciate if others use the tool.
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    <td> </td>
    <td><b>Research projects</b></td>
    <td><b>HPC projects</b></td>
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    <td>
      2015-2019
    </td>
    <td>
      <i>ExaHyPE - An Exascale Hyperbolic PDE Engine </i><br />
      European Horizon 2020 project
    </td>
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    <td>
      2015
    </td>
    <td />
    <td>
      <i>Patchwork Family: A Patch-based
      Parallel Manycore Version of the Finite Cell Method </i><br />
      The Beacon Project/Univ.~of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab
    </td>
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    <td>
      2013
    </td>
    <td />
    <td>
      <i>Development of load-balancing schemes for a particle in cell solver, and an adaptive mesh-refined Maxwell solver</i><br />
      PRACE Preparatory Access
    </td>
  </tr>
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    <td>
      2011-2013
    </td>
    <td />
    <td>
      <i>PaTriG - Particle Transport Simulation in the Grid</i><br />
      made by the GCS Supercomputer at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
    </td>
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    <td>
      2009-2014
    </td>
    <td>
      <i>Virtual Arabia</i> and <i>Visual High Performance Computing</i> and <i>Simulating CO2 Sequestration</i>  <br />
      KAUST 
    </td>
  </tr>
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    <td>
      2008
    </td>
    <td />
    <td>
      <i>Particle Transport in a Drift Ratchet as an Application Example for High Performance CFD and FSI</i>  <br />
      DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) DECI
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    <td>
      2004-2008
    </td>
    <td>
      <i>Modellierung und Weiterentwicklung von Mikropumpen</i>  <br />
      German Research Foundation
    </td>
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</table>




<p>
Peano's roadmap is driven solely by the research interest and research projects of the developers.
Specific requests concerning upcoming features should be addressed to the project's mail (info(at)peano-framework.org). 
Currently, the following items have highest priority:
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<ul>
  <li>Enhance the software's suitability to multi-Xeon Phi capabilities.</li>
  <li>Study the software's scaling on SuperMUC. Dynamic load balancing is of particular interest. 
    This will not be available through Peano - Peano provides interfaces to plug in load 
    balancing - but will feedback on this interface and eventually lead into a toolbox
    made available here.
  </li> 
  <li>Identify software requirements w.r.t. hyperbolic equation system solvers based upon patches, i.e. embedded regular Cartesian grids.</li>
  <li>Document the usage to help other developers with rapid prototyping.</li>
</ul>