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​Supporting nuclear fusion energy research

GÉANT is essential link in search for clean, sustainable energy

​ITER machine. ITER IO copyright.

GÉANT is providing data links to the International Fusion Energy Research Centre (IFERC) in Rokkasho, Japan. IFERC hosts the Helios supercomputer, a system with a compute power exceeding 1 PFlops and attached to a storage capacity of 50 PB. The Helios supercomputer is provided and operated by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France and is a Fusion for Energy (F4E) resource. GÉANT is supplying a 10Gbps (10 Gigabits per second) link to connect Helios with scientists involved in ITER and DEMO, the demonstration fusion reactor which is considered the follow-on project* of ITER.

It is hoped, after the first fusion plasmas of ITER in Cadarache, France, planned for 2020 and beyond, that DEMO, an industrial demonstration fusion reactor, will lead to full-scale fusion energy reaching the commercial market in the second half of the century.

​“The combination of major new scientific projects like IFERC and the use of supercomputers like HELIOS is creating an explosion of data for which we need to be ready. The provision of a 10Gbps link is a first and crucial step to support the data networking needs in the global search for cleaner, sustainable energy and to assist scientists in their ground-breaking work.”

GÉANT Business Solutions Consultant, Roberto Sabatino

 

For more information, please see: GÉANT paves data highway for nuclear fusion energy research

See also: ITER www.iter.org