Technology Readiness Level: 9
*As assessed with the Human Brain Project's TRL Guide
Technology Description
UNICORE provides a set of software components for building secure distributed and federated computing infrastructures, integrating diverse and heterogeneous HPC and data storage systems. UNICORE is used to access high-performance computing systems and high-capacity storage systems from web applications and end-user client applications. It offers easy to use and flexible RESTful APIs for batch job management, data access, data movement and computational workflows.
UNICORE integrates seamlessly into existing HPC infrastructures, and provides many options for user management.
UNICORE provides a comprehensive set of services and RESTful APIs for federation and integration of HPC resources
Secure, highly flexible and widely configurable solution, keeping the resource owners in full control of their data
Competitive Advantages
Simplified end-user access
to HPC resources
Improved time to solution
by integrating HPC into your applications and workflows
Automated & reproducible scientific workflows
Hybrid HPC/cloud workflows
High-performance data transfer
with a flexible security and permissions architecture
Applications
and Market Potential
Integrate HPC and Cloud systems into novel, hybrid web-based applications
Connect computing and data resources accross administrative domains
Create and run reproducible scientific computational workflows
Interesting Facts
- UNICORE forms the backbone for the Jupyter service at Jülich Supercomputing Centre, providing user-friendly access to Jülich‘s world-class HPC resources (for more information, visit https://jupyter-jsc.fz-juelich.de)
- The German company NanoMatch uses UNICORE as a foundation of their SimStack software for virtual materials design for organic electronics and device optimization (for more information, visit https://www.nanomatch.com)
