ParSimTech Research and Training Center

A citizen’s quality of life is always tightly related to the improvement of general technological progress in many subject areas – from mechanical and electrical engineering, information technology, mining and technological fields of industry up to biotechnological processes of cellular and molecular dynamics, medicine, and biomechanics of living organisms. It also depends on an achieved level in theory and mathematical description of the internal dynamic processes of different physical nature, simulation of these processes and further practical implementation of the theory into the real technical objects. An important role here plays computing resources which allow to minimize computational time and to increase the complexity of the simulation models. Parallel computing systems open for scientists a new level of simulation, but they also set high requirements on specific knowledge and experience of the users. As a result, granting access to computing resources is not sufficient, specialised training of the personnel is also needed. The same problem appears during the integration of a computing centre into the university educational program – new courses, workshops and learning materials are required. In this paper, we share our experience and a vision, how modern computing resources could be integrated into university life, what challenges and issues can be expected here. Also, we present a new scientific project between Ukrainian and German academia partners which has a goal to enhance accessibility, usability and improve the system organization of parallel computing resources. The project represents a multidisciplinary research area of Parallel Simulation Technology (ParSimTech) and focuses on the creation of the Ukrainian research and training ParSimTech centre.