High-Performance Computing Europe s place in a Global Race

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1 High-Performance Computing Europe s place in a Global Race RI NCP Meeting Brussels, 5 July 2011 Bernhard Fabianek European Commission - DG INFSO GEANT & e-infrastructures 1 The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission

2 Collaboration between European and worldwide teams; access to rare/remote resources Global Virtual Communities Data-intensive science and innovation Use and manage exponentially growing sets of data Experimentation in silico, simulation Use of high-performance computing ICT a fundamental enabler for research & innovation

3 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 3

4 Conclusions of 2982 nd Competitiveness Council of Dec 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. 4

5 Tier-0 PRACE-1IP/exa-scale 55 M + 60 M from PRACE members Tier-1 DEISA2/PRACE-2IP 48 M HP-SEE & LinkSCEEM2 Tier-2 Grids EGI 50 M numerous other projects 5

6 Partnership for Advance Computing in Europe 21 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 four leading edge Tier-0 systems First Tier-0 system (1 petaflops) in Germany (JUGENE) High interest in PRACE access calls (6 times oversubscribed) Address issues like more effective solar cells, biochemistry, fluid dynamics, particle and plasma physics, weather and climate models, material science, and astro-physics, etc. Study "Development of a Supercomputing Strategy in Europe by IDC PRACE AISBL opened on 5 October 2010 in Brussels by Commissioner Kroes Second PRACE Tier-0 system (1.6 petaflops) in France (CURIE) Third PRACE Tier-0 system (up to 5 petaflops) announced in Germany 6 (HERMIT) 6

7 a.u DEISA DECI PRACE PRACE Tier-0 2 systems DECI

8 Study A Strategic Agenda for European Leadership in Supercomputing: HPC 2020 Partners: IDC France with the support of Ter@tec 12 months duration Final report and presentation at SARA in Amsterdam, 11 October 2010 Reports at:

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11 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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13 Europe has lost 10% of its HPC capabilities in the last 2 years while Asia and the US have increased their capabilities China overtook 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 13

14 High-Performance Computing Makes Europe more competitive and innovative Is too fragmented across Europe Is diminishing in terms of supply and usage Needs a trained workforce Instrument for global cooperation 14