Ideas About the Future of HPC in Europe

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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”

HPC User Forum Stuttgart, 7-8 October 2010

Bernhard FabianekEuropean Commission - DG INFSO

GEANT & e-Infrastructures

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Scientific advances more important than ever

Global challenges with high societal impact

Innovation and economic development

Adoption of ICT changes the scientific discovery process

Computing, simulation and data

Tackling the very small, very big and very complex

Cost efficiency

Open, cross-border & cross-discipline collaboration

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Collaboration between European and worldwide research teams; remote access

Global virtual research communities

Data-intensive science and innovation Use and manage exponentially growing sets of data

Experimentation in silico, simulation Use of High-Performance Computing

HPC a fundamental enabler for research & innovation

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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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National

Tier-1 DEISA2/PRACE2 – €30 MHP-SEE & LinkSCEEM2

EU

Tier-0 –PRACE1/exa-scale – €55 M

Local

Tier-2 Grids EGI – €50 Mnumerous other projects

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National

Tier-1 DEISA2/PRACE2 – €30 MHP-SEE & LinkSCEEM2

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Most powerful European supercomputers

Dedicated high speed network (10 Gb/s)

Single sign-on, common AAA

Common production environment

European teams of experts

Extreme Computing Initiative

Virtual Science Communities support

Grand Challenge Projects on regular basis

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HP-SEE (€2.1 M)– South-East European and Black Sea regional

HPC interconnection– Expected result: sustainable national HPC

centers, long-term sustainable (hierarchical) model in collaboration with PRACE

LinkSCEEM2 (€2.5 M)– Optimally integrate resources by linking

established lead HPC centers– Create user support and training programs– Focus on climate science, cultural heritage and

synchrotron applications, that are of particular relevance to the Eastern Mediterranean region

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EU

Tier-0 –PRACE1/exa-scale – €55+ M

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PRACE – A Partnership with a Vision• Provide world-class HPC systems for word-class

science

• Support Europe in attaining global leadership in public and private research and development

… and a Mission

Create a world-leading persistent HPC infrastructure

• Deploy 3 – 6 systems of the highest performance level

• Ensure a diversity of architectures meeting needs of users

• Provide support and training

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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 early access call (10 out of 60+ proposals funded)

• 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 14

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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 will overtake Europe (all 27 Member States combined) in terms of HPC capacities available in 2011

Fragmentation of European HPC efforts across many countries

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Pooling of national investments in HPC in order to strengthen the position of European industry and academia in the use, development and manufacturing of advanced computing products, services and technologies

Further development of the European HPC Infrastructure - PRACE

Make European industry more innovative through the use of HPC

Demonstrate impact and benefits of HPC‐ use‐ supply

Develop exa-scale prototypes and support of international HPC collaborations - EESI

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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

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

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Two further phases of PRACE in 2011 and 2012/2013 (20 M€ each)

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 to facilitate 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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