European Initiative on HPC
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Event Type
Workshop
Applications
Government Strategies, Programs, and Funding
HPC Center Planning and Operations
TimeMonday, November 13th2:15pm -
2:30pm
Location708
DescriptionOn March 23rd 2017, at the occasion of the 60th year
celebration of the Rome European treaty, ministers from
major European countries and the European Commission
announced the EuroHPC initiative. The goal is to procure
and deploy exascale supercomputers based on European
technology in the global top 3 ranking by 2022. The
initiative was signed by 7 European countries. Several
other countries have joined the initiative since.
Considerable funding has been committed by the EU and a
large number of industrial and scientific partners have
gathered together and recently submitted a proposal to
develop an European low power HPC processor, as a first
step to implement a full European domestic HPC stack.
BSC is leading the research effort among some of the
most prestigious research teams in Europe. A fundamental
choice will be the move towards open standards in the
definition of the CPU accelerator architecture in close
collaboration with the industrial partners involved. For
commercial long-term sustainability, it will be
important to address a wider market than just HPC and
for the time being the automotive embedded market has
been retained. A considerable effort will be dedicated
to complement the hardware design with the necessary
software development and programming environments to
allow the co-design of mission critical applications,
which can greatly benefit from exascale computing
capacity. The talk will briefly review the goals and
plans to implement the EuroHPC initiative in
Europe.
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