High-Performance ComputingResearch in Europe

Dr Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos

Future and Emerging Technologies DG CONNECT

European Commission

Horizon 2020 - the EU framework programme for research and innovation 2014-2020: a stronger, clearer focus

ExcellentScience24,4 B€

IndustrialLeadership

17B€

SocietalChallenges

29,6 B€

H2020 Budget: 77B€

OTHERS: 5,8B€ (Spreading excellence & widening participation, Science & Society, JRC, EIT)

(current prices)

HPC strategy combining three elements: (a) Computer Science: towards exascale HPC; A special FET initiative

focussing on the next generations of exascale computing as a key horizontal enabler for advanced modelling, simulation and big-data applications [HPC in FET]

(b) achieving excellence in HPC applications; Centres of Excellence for scientific/industrial HPC applications in (new) domains that are most important for Europe [e-infrastructures]

(c) providing access to the best supercomputing facilities and services for both industry and academia; PRACE - world-class HPC infrastructure for the best research [e-infrastructures]

• complemented with training, education and skills development in HPC

An integrated HPC approach in H2020

"Excellent Science" part of

H2020

Excellence in HPC applications(Centres of Excellence)

EU development of Exascale technologies

Access to best HPC for industry and academia

Interrelation betweenthe three elements

• specifications of exascale prototypes

• technological options for future systems

• Collaboration of HPC Centres and application CoEs

• provision of HPC capabilities and expertise

• identify applications for co-design of exascale systems

• Innovative methods and algorithms for extreme parallelism of traditional/emerging applications

"Excellent Science" part of

H2020

PRACE is an international not-for-profit association under Belgian law, with its seat in Brussels.

PRACE counts 25 members and 2 observers.

The PRACE Hosting Members are France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

PRACE is governed by the PRACE Council in which each member has a seat. The daily management of the association is delegated to the Board of Directors.

PRACE is funded by its members as well as through a series of implementation projects supported by the European Commission.

Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe

The European HPC Ecosystem: Access to best HPC

www.prace-ri.eu

MareNostrum: IBMBSC, Barcelona, Spain

JUQUEEN: IBM BlueGene/Q GAUSS/FZJJülich, Germany

CURIE: Bull Bullx GENCI/CEABruyères-le-Châtel, France

SuperMUC: IBM GAUSS/LRZ Garching, Germany

FERMI: IBM BlueGene/QCINECA , Bologna, Italy

Hazel Hen: Cray GAUSS/HLRS,Stuttgart, Germany

4 Hosting Members offering core hours on6 world-class machines

PRACE

Access through PRACE Peer ReviewCriterion: Scientific Excellence

The European HPC Ecosystem: Access to best HPC

ETP4HPC Association, the European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing: An industry-led forum founded by stakeholders of HPC technology

Open membership for organizations having HPC R&D based in Europe

70 organizations are currently members

www.etp4hpc.eu

The European HPC Ecosystem: Technology development

Through the Strategic Research Agenda, the ETP4HPC Association has identified research areas and topics to reach a stronger European HPC environment that can benefit Europe and the rest of the world.

The European HPC Ecosystem: Technology development

Horizon 2020 may be implemented through Public-Private Partnerships where all the partners concerned commit to support the development and implementation of R&I activities of strategic importance to the Union. The Union enters a contractual agreement (cPPP) with private partners Commitment for the duration of the Horizon 2020 programme

Eight cPPPs launched in January 2014:Factories of the Future (FoF), Energy-efficient Buildings (EeB), European Green Vehicles Initiative (EGVI), Sustainable Process Industry (SPIRE), Advanced 5G network (5G), Robotics, Photonics

High Performance Computing• Public-Private Partnership with ETP4HPC• Based on the ETP4HPC Strategic Research Agenda • Started 1st January 2014 • 700 m€ EU funding for the period 2014-2020

Public-Private Partnerships in H2020

• To build a European world-class HPC technology value chain that is globally competitive - synergy between the three pillars of the HPC ecosystem (technology development, applications and computing infrastructure)

• To achieve a critical mass of convergent resources in order to increase the competitiveness of European HPC vendors and solutions

• To leverage the transformative power of HPC in order to boost European competitiveness in science and business

• To expand the HPC user base, especially SMEs, and to facilitate the participation of SMEs in the provision of competitive HPC technology solutions

• To develop a EU leadership and world-wide excellence in key application domains for industry, science and society• provision of innovative solutions for grand societal challenges • development of the future applications for the exascale

computing generation

Public-Private Partnership in HPC

General objectives

2014-2015 Calls of the HPC cPPP

• €140m funding committed

• Projects start: Autumn 2015

• Complete HPC R&D project portfolio covering all elements of HPC stack

• Multi-partner consortia involved in all projects

• Specific actions to further develop the European HPC ecosystem

• Centres of Excellence for key HPC applications

HPC Ecosystem

EXDCIEurolab-4-HPC

Algorithms

Programming tools

Math

emat

ics

Compute

Memory & storageInterconnect

Data-intensive real-time

ExCAPE

GreenFLASH

READEXESCAPE

INTERTWINEALLScale

ANTAREX

ExaFLOWComPat

NLAFETExaHYPE

NEXTGenIOSAGE

ExaNEST

ExaNoDeECOSCALE

EXTRAMont-Blanc 3

Mango

The new European HPC research landscape

Project Start: Autumn 2015

BioExcel COEGSS EoCoE E-CAM ESiWACE MAX NOMAD PoP

Centres of Excellence

Biomolecular Global systems Energy Simulation

ModellingWeather Climate

Materials Materials Performance optimisation

Future HPC Calls 2016-2017

HPC-related callsHorizon 2020

••• 14

• WP2016-2017 Support to the Pan-European HPC infrastructure

(eInfrastructure)• Implementation of PRACE (PRACE-4IP) – 15 m€ • Procurement of innovative solutions in HPC (PPI) – 26 m€• HPC e-infrastructure for the Human Brain Project – 25 m€

Support to exascale technologies development (FET)• Co-design of HPC systems and applications – 41 m€ • Transition to exascale computing – 40 m€• Exascale Ecosystem Development – 4 m€

Headline research challenges FETHPC 2016/2017 Calls

• Co-design of HPC systems and applications: bigger projects with 10-20m indicative funding per project [2016]

• Transition to exascale computing : smaller focused projects with 2-4m indicative funding per project [2017]• High productivity programming environments for exascale• Exascale system software and management• Exascale I/O and storage in the presence of multiple tiers of data

storage: • Supercomputing for Extreme Data and emerging HPC use modes• Mathematics and algorithms for extreme scale HPC systems and

applications working with extreme data

• Exascale Ecosystem Development : Coordination and Support Actions with 1-2m indicative funding per project [2017]

HPC Overall strategy Horizon 2020 Calls 2014-2017

ApplicationsSocietal challenges

Scientific strategic applicationsEmerging domains (Big Data)New methods and algorithms

Exascale technologiesArchitectures, programming.

environments, tools…Exascale Prototypes

Pan-European HPC InfrastructureHPC CapabilityHPC Services

Support to innovationTraining

EducationSkills

CLOUDS

ADVANCED COMPUTING

SMEs Services, Competence

Centres

Flagship Applications

(HBP)

Clouds for Science

PRACE-4IP(15 m€)

Centres of Excellence(40 m€)

Network of SME competence centres

(2 m€)

Core technologies (93,4 m€)Ecosystem development (4 m€)

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

WP2014-15 ~155 M€(~140 in the cPPP)

WP2016-17 ~151 M€ (85 in the cPPP)

PRACE (15 m€)PPI for HPC (26 m€)

HBP – HPC (25 m€)

Co-design (41 m€)Transition to exascale (40 m€)Ecosystem development (4 m€)

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023l l l l l l l l ll

Projects from 2014 Call:Technology building blocks

&1st round CoEs

Projects from 2016 Call:1st level co-design

Projects from 2017 Call:Exascale transition

Future 2018/19/20 Calls:• Extreme Scale Demonstrators (2nd-level co-design / integration)• Exascale transition• 2nd round of CoEs

HPC PPP timeline in H2020(indicative)

HPC Ecosystem development

Projects start

Exascale Technologies & Applications

"Notre ambition c'est que d'ici 2020, l'Europe se classe dans le top 3 mondial du calcul à haute performance."

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker

"Our ambition is that until 2020, Europe is in the world top 3 of high performance computing."

27 October 2015

Thank you for your attention!

Email: Panagiotis.Tsarchopoulos@ec.europa.eu

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