MaX Centre of Excellence drives innovation in materials research by leveraging Europe’s growing exascale supercomputing and data capacity. These advances open new possibilities for quantum materials discovery and design, strengthening Europe’s leadership in science and technology.
Materials are vital to industrial competitiveness and to addressing major societal challenges — from clean energy and environmental sustainability to healthcare, digital technologies, and manufacturing. MaX develops and optimises computational tools and community codes for quantum mechanical simulations, ensuring they fully exploit next-generation High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems.
Through its technologies and training, MaX empowers a broad community of researchers and industry partners, enabling frontier science and accelerating materials innovation across Europe.
Bringing the most successful and widely used open-source, community codes in quantum simulations of materials towards exascale and extreme scaling performance.
Enabling the convergence of High-Performance Computing and High-Throughput Computing with Data Analytics to improve materials research and innovation.
Promoting co-design activities and ensuring that future High-Performance Computing architectures are well suited for materials domain applications and vice versa.
Engaging academic and industrial communities by offering professional trainings, and supporting code users and developers by providing workflows and turn-key solutions.
MaX – Materials design at the eXascale has received funding from the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking and Participating Countries in Project (Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Spain) under grant agreement no. 101093374.
Czechia
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (Grant n. MC2303)
France
Programme de Recherche Numérique pour l’Exascale (Grant n. ANR-22-EXNU-0006)
Germany
Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (Grant n. 16HPC068K/16HPC069)
Italy
MIMIT Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy. Finanziato dall’Unione Europea NextGenerationEU
Slovenia
Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation
Spain
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Plan de recuperación, transformación y resiliencia. Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Grant n. PCI2022-134972-2 [ICN2], PCI2022-134978-2 [ICMAB], PCI2022-135083-2 [BSC])