New EuroHPC Project SEANERGYS Advances Energy-Efficient Supercomputing

As high-performance computing (HPC) systems progress toward Exascale performance and beyond, the increasing computational capacity results in higher demands for energy. Enhancing energy efficiency is therefore not only a matter of operational optimisation, but a key enabler for Europe’s broader digital and green transition.

By improving how energy is monitored, managed, and used in supercomputing, the EuroHPC project SEANERGYS is helping to reinforce the European commitment to sustainability while making progress on long-term benefits across scientific research, industrial innovation, and societal advancement.

In this context, SEANERGYS will address these challenges by providing a comprehensive software suite capable of optimising the operation of EuroHPC supercomputers in real time, optimising energy consumption and balancing this with the needs of the supercomputer users.

The recently launched project focuses on four core objectives: reducing the energy consumed by real-world workloads, improving resource utilisation, enhancing overall system throughput, and optimising response times leading to more R&D output per unit of consumed power and energy. 

SEANERGYS plans to reach these objectives with the use of three tightly integrated components: a comprehensive monitoring infrastructure (CMI) that collects and analyses detailed system data in a holistic way, an advanced artificial intelligence-based analytics system (AIDAS) that interprets performance and energy metrics to predict system behaviour, and a dynamic scheduling and resource management system (DSRM) which uses the AIDAS data to optimise workload execution and system operation in real time. The SEANERGYS software suite will fully support dynamic workload management and leverage their adaptability in the interest of energy and throughput optimisation. 

Together, these components enable a level of coordination and optimisation of HPC/AI system operation for current and future workloads, going far beyond the current state of the art.

SEANERGYS builds upon several previous projects funded by the EuroHPC JU, including the DEEP-SEA project and REGALE project. With the aim of advancing and harmonising their efforts, the project's ultimate goal is to develop a unified European software suite that can be seamlessly adopted across diverse and modular supercomputing architectures. To support the harmonisation, the project builds on the competency of well-established European research groups and companies and widely used open-source codes. 

By doing so, SEANERGYS will help reducing energy waste and operating costs and, at the same time, will contribute to maximise the scientific and industrial benefits for Europe's investments in HPC and AI infrastructures.

More details 

SEANERGYS has been selected following the call HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2023-ENERGY-04 and will run for 48 months, starting on 1 June 2025. 

The project is coordinated by Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH and brings together 16 partners from across Europe to develop a fully integrated, production-ready software solution for improving the energy efficiency of HPC and AI computing systems.

SEANERGYS is funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and national contributions, with a total budget of approximately €32.9 million. The EuroHPC funding comes from Horizon Europe, the European Union’s research and innovation programme. 

Background

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is a legal and funding entity created in 2018 to enable the European Union and EuroHPC participating countries to coordinate their efforts and pool their resources with the objective of making Europe a world leader in supercomputing.

To equip Europe with a world-leading supercomputing infrastructure, the EuroHPC JU has already procured ten supercomputers, located across Europe. Through the EuroHPC Access Calls, European scientists and users from the public sector and industry can benefit from these EuroHPC supercomputers, which rank among the world’s most powerful.   

Currently, the EuroHPC JU is also overseeing the implementation of 13 AI factories across Europe that offer free, customised support to SMEs and startups. These comprehensive open AI ecosystems centred around EuroHPC supercomputing facilities are supporting the growth of a highly competitive and innovative AI ecosystem in Europe.

The EuroHPC JU is also deploying a European Quantum Computing infrastructure, integrating diverse European quantum computing technologies with supercomputers. As part of this effort, the JU has recently procured six quantum computers, currently being deployed in Poland, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, with additional systems coming soon to Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

In parallel, the EuroHPC JU is investing in research and innovation projects to develop a full European supercomputing supply chain: from processors and software to applications to be run on these supercomputers and know-how to develop strong European HPC expertise.