Organisation

Coordinator

Elisa Molinari (CNR – UNIMORE) | Italy

General Assembly

The main governing body of the Centre of Excellence is the General Assembly (GA) composed by the Principal Investigator (PI) of each project partner:

  • CNR | Elisa Molinari
  • SISSA | Stefano Baroni
  • ICN2 | Pablo Ordejón
  • JUELICH | Stefan Blugel
  • CEA | Luigi Genovese
  • UBremen | Nicola Marzari
  • CINECA | Fabio Affinito
  • BSC | José María Cela
  • IT4I | Lubomir Riha
  • IJS | Anton Kokalj
  • ATOS- Eviden | Erwan Raffin
  • SIPEARL | Vincent Casillas
  • E4 | Daniele Gregori
  • LEONARDO | Carlo Cavazzoni

Permanent invited members are representatives of Unimore and CSIC (Affiliated Entities respectively of CNR and ICN2). 

Work-Package Leaders Committee

The Work-Package Leaders Committee (WP-Exec) is a small and agile board that executes the MaX project. Formed by the leaders of each WP and chaired by Andrea Ferretti (CNR), the WP-Exec monitors the progress of the WPs individually and jointly, and reports to and is accountable to the General Assembly. Three additional bodies/operational structures are set up informally by the Consortium to ease the project implementation and to flank the Coordinator:

Technical Project Manager
The Technical Project Manager is an operational entity that flanks the Coordinator in MaX external relations within the HPC ecosystem. This entity operates in close connection with WP leaders and continuously assesses that work tasks and allocated budget are used according to the proposal and the plans.

Software Technical Board (STB)
The STB is composed of a representative of each code supported in the consortium. Led by the WP1 Leader, the STB is the institutional body to exchange technical and software engineering best practices among the different development teams. Together with the STB, MaX members technically discuss strategies and opportunities concerning software development.

Management Team

The Management team at CNR includes:

Work Packages (WPs)

The work plan of the MaX project is organised into 7 work packages contributing to the main MaX pillars.

Diagram explaining the different Work Packages of MaX and their main objectives.

WP1 | Lighthouse Applications for Materials Science
Leader – Stefano Baroni (SISSA) | Deputy – Daniel Wortmann (FJZ)

WP2 | Exascale workflows and extreme data for materials
Leader – Nicola Marzari (UBREMEN) | Deputy – Alberto Garcia (CSIC)

WP3 | Technical challenges towards exascale and post-exascale
Leader – Fabio Affinito (CINECA) | Deputy – Jan Jona Javorsek (IJS)

WP4 | Co-design, technology exploitation & energy efficiency
Leader – Lubomir Riha (IT4I@VSB) | Deputy – Kaveh Haghighi Mood (FZJ)

WP5 | Training & Community Engagement within the HPC ecosystem
Leader – Daniele Varsano (CNR)

WP6 | Communication, exploitation, and dissemination
Leader – Marina Corradini (ICN2)

WP7 | Management
Leader – Luisa Neri (CNR)