E4

Institution

Since 2002, E4 has been innovating and actively encouraging the adoption of new computing and storage technologies. With a comprehensive range of hardware, software and services, we are able to offer you solutions for the most demanding workloads on: HPC, Big-Data, AI, Deep Learning, Data Analytics, Cognitive Computing and much more. We take an agnostic approach towards the many technologies available on the market. This allows us to devise and offer the best solution tailored to customer needs.

Research expertise

E4 has supplied CERN and the HEP community with computer servers and storage server aimed at several experiments carried out in their premises. Furthermore, E4 has dedicated facilities for the design and testing of HPC solutions where a large number of development platforms are installed. Because of the direct relationship with the key components producer (motherboards, processors, memory, GPUs, FPGAs), E4 is also able to provide in-depth analysis of the latest technology and provide early access to new platforms.

Tasks in MaX

E4 supports the software development and testing via making available platform and architecture to the developers. It also develops a solution (appliance-like HPC cluster, HW and SW) optimized for material science (e.g. validated with the lighthouse codes developed within MaX). The appliance will be added as a new asset to the E4 Computer Engineering’s portfolio complemented by marketing campaigns for positioning it in the material science market, targeting large chemical/pharma industries, chemical companies, R&D departments. E4 develops containerized versions of the ﬂagship codes ready to install, by deploying OS-specific packages and HPC and HPT versions with dedicated marketing campaigns.