Ideas About the Future of HPC in Europe

1. Ideas About the Future of HPC in Europe 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 “The views expressed in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission”

2. European HPC Mandate European HPC Mandate 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. European HPC Mandate cont. European HPC Mandate cont. Conclusions of 2982ndCompetitiveness 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.

4. Challenges Challenges • 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

5. Tier-0 –PRACE1/exa-scale – €55 M EU Tier-1 DEISA2/PRACE2 – €30 M HP-SEE & LinkSCEEM2 National Tier-2 Grids EGI – €50 Mnumerous other projects Local HPC Eco-System HPC Eco-System

6. European HPC Service European HPC Service a.u. PRACE 2 systems PRACE Tier-0 “DECI” DECI DEISA 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

7. PRACE – Results PRACE – Results • 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 7

8. 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/ European Leadership in HPC European Leadership in HPC

9. 10% Loss Study Findings Study Findings

10. Only half of USGDP spending Study Findings cont. I Study Findings cont. I

11. Study Findings cont. II Study Findings cont. II • 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

12. Top500 List Top500 List Asia 24% Europe 23% US 53%

13. European HPC Issues European HPC Issues • 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

14. Study Recommendations Study Recommendations 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

15. Study Recommendations cont. I Study Recommendations cont. I • 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

16. Keeps Europe fromfalling backtoo quickly Achieving Major Goals Better than doing nothing and achievingsome goals Full Leadership Study Recommendations cont. II Study Recommendations cont. II

17. Study Recommendations cont. III Study Recommendations cont. III

18. Actions Actions • 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

19. Actions cont. Actions cont. 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. ••• 19

20. HPC Investment Plan HPC Investment Plan • 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

21. Conclusions Conclusions High-Performance Computing is THE Enabler • 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

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