EUROPEANUNIONOVERVIEW

Jean-PierrePANZIERA ETP4HPCSergiGIRONA PRACE

EuropeanCommissionPresidentJean-ClaudeJuncker

French-GermanConferenceonDigital;Paris,27October 2015

"OurambitionisforEuropetobecomeoneofthetop3worldleadersin

high-performancecomputingby2020"

ThePoliticalPriorities

EuropeanCloudInitiative [COM(2016)178of19/4/2016]

■ EuropeanOpenScienceCloud(EOSC)– Integrationandconsolidationofe-infrastructures– Federationofexistingresearchinfrastructuresandscientificclouds– Developmentofcloud-basedservicesforOpenScience– ConnectionofESFRIstotheEOSC

■ EuropeanDataInfrastructure(EDI)– Developmentanddeploymentoflarge-scaleEuropeanHPC,dataand

networkinfrastructures

■ Wideningaccess– SMEs,Industryatlarge,Government

"BuildingaEuropeanDataEconomy"[COMinJan2017]

■ Acquisition (in2020-2021)of2operationalpre-exascaleand(in2022-2023)twofullexascalemachines(ofwhichonebasedonEuropeantechnology)

■ InterconnectionandfederationofnationalandEuropeanHPCresourcesandcreationofanHPCandBigDataserviceinfrastructurefacility

■ Demonstratingandtestingtechnologyperformancetowardsexascalethroughscientific&industrialcompute-intensiveapplications

HPC/EDIObjectives(1)

Cloud Computing

Big Data Analytics

HPC

Buildaworld-classEuropeanHighPerformanceComputing(HPC),BigDataandCloudEcosystem

EnabledbytheConvergenceof3bigtechnologies

■ MajorinvestmentssofarbothatMSandEUlevel[FP7,H2020]

■ Numerousresearchplayers(academiaandindustry)

■ HPCandBigDataPPPs,PRACE,GEANT,etc.

HPC/EDIObjectives(2)

HPC/EDIstrategy– Anoutlook

■ Tightercoordinationofnationalstrategiesforupgradingcomputing,dataandnetworkinfrastructuresincluding:– EU-wideaccesstofederatedcomputinganddataresources– Poolingofinvestments(EU,national)toreachcriticalmassneededfor

acceleratingthemovetoexascale– BuildingonachievementsinPRACE-2andGEANT

■ EstablishingasquicklyaspossibleapartnershipwithindustryandMemberStatestooffer:– HPCasaservicetoawiderangeofdataandcomputeintensive

applicationsinkeysectors(health,industrie 4.0,finance,agriculture,etc.)– BuildupHPCindustrialstrengthsinEuropeacrossthetechnologychain– BuildonprogressinIPCEI

■ Challengeèmakethetwotracksconvergeandensure"co-design"asearlyaspossible

HPC/EDI– Fundingneeds[COM(2016)178of19/4/2016]

■ 1.5B€ for2pre-exascaleand2exascale machines■ 1.7B€ fortheinterconnectionandfederationofsupercomputinginfrastructures

■ 0.5B€ forprocessorandforwideraccesstoHPCfacilitiesforSMEs

■ 1.0-1.5B€ fordemoandtestingofindustrialapplications

Total:4.7– 5.2B€

PRACEupdate: PRACE-2

■ PRACE-2establishedthrough2020

■ 5countriesprovidingcomputingresourcestoEuropeanresearchcommunity.4foundingcountries+1– France,Germany,Italy,Spain– Switzerland

■ 75+Million/node_hour/year

■ 5HighLevelSupportteams,HLST– Applicationssupport(porting,tuning,modification)

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