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Ideas About the Future of HPC Ideas About the Future of HPC in Europein Europe
“The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission”
15th meeting of the Programme Committee for the execution of the Specific Programme "Capacities"
Brussels, 21 January 2011
Bernhard FabianekEuropean Commission - DG INFSO
GEANT & e-Infrastructures
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The Communication on ICT Infrastructures for e-Science Com(2009) 108 asks:
“Building a new generation of supercomputing facilities”
Member States to scale up and pool investment in support of PRACE
Commission to define and support an ambitious European strategic agenda for supercomputing
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Conclusions of 2982nd Competitiveness Council of Dec. 2009 invite the Member States and the Commission to:
pool their investments in high performance computing under PRACE, in order to strengthen the position of European industry and academia in the use, development and manufacturing of advanced computing products, services and technologies;
explore how to extend the benefits of e-Infrastructures (such as PRACE) to industrial research and innovation, to public services and to SMEs;
examine the need and the means to provide incentives for the wider use of pre-commercial procurement at local, regional national and European level to provide innovative solutions to the public sector, including for the deployment of e-Infrastructures (such as PRACE) and for the support to SME.
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Investments in HPC infrastructures require a long term perspective
Combine and reinforce the efforts of national and EU funding authorities - PRACE
Exploit the innovative potential of HPC services beyond science
Develop a new HPC strategy for industrial involvement
Transition to peta-scale and exa-scale computing creates new opportunities for both science and computing
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Tier-1 DEISA2/PRACE2 – €30 MHP-SEE & LinkSCEEM2
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Tier-0 –PRACE1/exa-scale – €55 M
Local
Tier-2 Grids EGI – €50 Mnumerous other projects
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• Partnership for Advance Computing in Europe
• 20 Countries joined forces to create a unique high-end High-Performance Computing Research Infrastructure
• National investments of 400 Mio € to deploy and operate up to six leading edge Tier-0 systems
• The first Tier-0 system has more than 1 PetaFLOPS and is fully available to European scientists via PRACE now
• High interest in PRACE access calls (nearly 700 M CPU hours)
• Address issues like more effective solar cells, biochemistry, fluid dynamics, particle and plasma physics, weather and climate models, material science, and astro-physics
• Study "Development of a Supercomputing Strategy in Europe"
• PRACE AISBL opened on 5 October in Brussels by Commissioner Kroes
• Second PRACE Tier-0 system (1.6 PetaFLOPS) announced by France
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StudyA Strategic Agenda for European Leadership in Supercomputing: HPC 2020
Partners: IDC France, Ter@tec
12 months duration
Final report and presentation at SARA in Amsterdam on 11 October 2010
Reports at:
www.hpcuserforum.com/eu/
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HPC use is indispensible for Europe’s industrial and scientific competitiveness
Europe has been under-investing in HPC while the rest of the world increased its investments in HPC
A EU-wide strategy is needed, because no European country acting alone can afford to compete with the US or with Asia
HPC funding in Europe is handled by a diversity of players at national and regional level. Only a few countries have a coherent HPC development strategy
HPC stakeholders rank US and Japanese HPC research programmes ahead of Europe’s
There is a strong support for PRACE
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Europe has lost 10% of its HPC capabilities in the last 2 years while Asia and the US have increased their capabilities by 30% and 40% respectively
China overtakes Europe (all 27 Member States combined) in terms of HPC capacities available
Fragmentation of European HPC efforts across many countries
Some HPC production capabilities with reliance on foreign components and (sub) systems; European IPR benefitting others
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Vision for EU HPC Leadership by 2020
Provide world-class HPC to make EU scientists and engineers the most productive and innovative in the world in applying HPC to advance their research, in pursuit of scientific advancement and economic growth.
Benefits Accelerate economic growth as much as 2-3% by 2020 EU becomes a hotbed for scientific and engineering
research European researchers becoming the most productive
and innovative in the world Expand the HPC ecosystem across the EU and create a
vibrant HPC supplier economy
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Align main stakeholders behind a strategic HPC agenda
Align European governance, structural and organizational issues around PRACE
Establish clear roles and responsibilities between EU and Member States (e.g. Tier-0 on EU level, Tier-1 and Grids on national level)
Broaden access to HPC systems for scientific and industrial users
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Implement a common Supercomputing Strategy in Europe together with Member States
Strengthen the European industrial base for the supply of HPC systems, technologies and services (support the setup of an HPC European Technology Platform)
Make Europe more attractive for leading scientists through the provision of a world-class HPC infrastructure Establish a wide ranging HPC training scheme
Use mechanisms for the joint, often pre-commercial, procurement of supercomputers by Member States
Exa-scale developments offers new opportunities
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Roadmap High Performance Computing - Europe's place in a Global Race
To ensure a secure and independent access to HPC systems and an efficient use of HPC by both science and industry in all of Europe.
Mechanisms for the joint, often pre-commercial, procurement of supercomputers by several Member States with the possibility of co-financing by the Commission;
Facilitating industrial access to HPC-based simulation and product prototyping services especially for SMEs;
A plan for the further development of PRACE including the provision of HPC experimental facilities;
Actions for ensuring the supply of HPC systems, technologies and expertise in Europe;
A governance structure at EU level to coordinate the implementation.
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Link the joint procurement of HPC systems with the joint funding of HPC Centers (at least on Tier-0 level)
Strengthen the use of HPC for innovation especially for industry including SMEs
Last phases of PRACE in 2012/2013 (20 M€)
Development of exa-scale prototypes from 2011 onwards (first tranche of 25 M€)
Support to international exa-scale coordination
Preparation of the 8th Framework Programme for R&D with the objective to reach an agreement between Member States and the European Commission to jointly fund (50/50) HPC systems
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a new corner-stone for e-Science
key element of the Digital Agenda for Europe and for innovation and competitiveness
an integrator of national infrastructures
an instrument for pan-European Science Cooperation
High-Performance Computing is THE Enabler
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