overview of activities on High Performance Computing Lisbon, 04 June 2017 Carlos Morais Pires European Commission, DG CNECT Disclaimer: the author’s views do not commit the European Commission

HPC in the DSM strategy: European Cloud Initiative To address the potential of the data economy, and as part of its DSM Digitising European Industry strategy, the Commission proposed the European Cloud Initiative (ECI) - April 2016. transition to a smart economy next generation of products and services innovation capacity in science and industry 1. European Open Science Cloud data intensive science 2. European Data Infrastructure underpinning digital science and economy 3. Widening access and building trust enlarging the benefits to all sectors of activity

HPC as enabler of digital science and data economy HPC is critical for the digitisation of industry and the data economy. It enables the transition to higher value products and services. The ECI initiative calls for the creation of a leading-class integrated exascale supercomputing infrastructure to exploit the data revolution. The underlying vision is to establish in Europe an integrated world-class HPC and Big Data (BD) ecosystem based on European leadership in HPC, Cloud and Big Data technologies. Placing Europe in the world's top 3 for HPC machines, connected and accessible throughout Europe provides investment opportunities on European technological excellence, digital infrastructures and knowhow. Proposed to realise the European HPC strategy based on three main pillars: research and innovation (components and HW/SW building blocks) infrastructure development, acquisition and interconnections applications, knowhow and skills

EuroHPC declaration signed in Rome (March 2017) During the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the Treaty of Rome, (March 2017) a group of seven Member States signed the EuroHPC declaration. Member States agree to work together and with the Commission in the context of a multi-government agreement to deploy a pan-European integrated exascale supercomputing infrastructure. Available and accessible across the EU for scientific communities, public and private partners. Other Member States are being invited to sign the declaration to reinforce the high-level political engagement. A first promising step in this direction: A group of Member States presented plans to launch an Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on HPC and Big Data enabled applications. Objective to support the development of new usages of HPC by the industry and to guarantee access to world-class HPC facilities for public and private research. The proposed IPCEI offers the possibility to underpin large-scale pilots (e.g. Smart Energy, Smart Cities, Smart Mobility,…) by progressively opening the European Data Infrastructure to users from industry and the public sector in view to tackling the full European dimension. No one can go alone in a connected economy. It has to be an European Ambition!

Ingredients of ECI/European HPC strategy Two pre-exascale HPC machines followed by two full exascale HPC machines One exascale machine based on European technology developments, particularly a competitive European low-power micro-processor to minimize technological dependencies Interconnection and federation of national and European HPC resources (non-exascale and exascale machines, data centres and associated software and applications) Provide HPC-based services to a wide range of users (scientific and industrial users including SMEs, and the public sector) for new and emerging data and compute-intensive applications Large scale demonstration and testing, as we scale up the performance of the technology to reach the exascale In areas spanning from scientific applications to health, space or industrial design and simulation Development of European post-exascale technologies and procurement of European post-exascale machines

Proposed approach being discussed in EuroHPC WG In order to realise the European HPC strategy it is proposed to follow a two- phased approach: Ramp-up [2017 – 2018]: has as objectives to prepare a detailed implementation roadmap of the EuroHPC strategy, including among other, the definition and setup of a legal and financial instrument for an efficient implementation of the EuroHPC strategy; and, define and establish an initial operational governance structure for EuroHPC (ongoing discussions in the EuroHPC Working Group). Implementation [2019–2025+]: Using the new legal and financial instrument for implementing the three pillars of the European HPC strategy. A recent step was taken with Commission announcing the intention to propose, by end of 2017, a legal instrument that provides a procurement framework for an integrated exascale supercomputing and data infrastructure.

Areas for the EuroHPC implementation roadmap Technical and operational requirements, including the development of competitive European technology and optimisation through co-design unprecedented challenges to go from petascale to exascale development of a competitive low-power European microprocessor engage users in the development phases Test-beds for HPC and big data applications test-beds for scientific, industrial applications involving innovative SMEs services of public interest in areas such as health, environment, or climate Definition of appropriate legal and financial instruments combination of different funding sources (i.e., European and national public funds and private investments) set up "fit for purpose" legal and financial instrument Procurement framework for HPC and data infrastructures investment plan for the pre-exascale and exascale machines definition of agents in charge of the procurement process and of the dialogue with funders and suppliers

implementation issues and funding Until 2020 In the absence of legal instrument allowing efficient pooling of all HPC funds (public and private), the European HPC strategy will be implemented with existing means EU funds using existing programme instruments (Horizon 2020 work programmes 2018-2020 such as LEIT-ICT, FET, and Research-Infrastructures/e-Infrastructures as well as the Connecting Europe Facility) ~240 M€ allocated for supporting HPC strategy in work programme 2016-17 ~840 M€ foreseen for HPC strategy in work programme 2018-20 National and private funds may complement After 2020 HPC strategy goes beyond 2020: Selection of architectures and technologies for the full exascale machines Development of post-exascale technologies; procurement of post exascale machines Upgrade whole ecosystem (interconnection, data storage etc.) at pan-European level

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