International Supercomputing Conference

18 June 2012, Hamburg

European Policiesfor High Performance Computing

(All expressed views are those of the speaker.)

http://slidesha.re/HPCforEU

Carl-Christian Buhrhttp://bit.ly/cc_buhr, @ccbuhr

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http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU,@NeelieKroesEU

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

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http://bit.ly/NeelieKroesEU,@NeelieKroesEU

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

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Advising on...

e-Infrastructures, HPCCloud ComputingICT Research PolicyScientific Informationetc.

http://bit.ly/cc_buhr,@ccbuhr

The European Commission...

...is Policy MakerLaunches policy debatesInvites Member States to take actionProposes EU legislation

...is Funding Agencye.g. Research & InnovationAccess policies for funded research

...is Infrastructure BuilderFunds research infrastructuresFunds related researchSupports networking activities

Why's HPC on the Agenda ?

Weather, Climate & Earth Sciences

Life Sciences and Health

Fundamental sciences: Physics, Chemistry, Material Sciences, Astrophysics Applications.

Industrial & Engineering Application for transport and energy

International context

US: Out-compute=out-compete; USD 126m for exascale in 2012; 5-6 systems in Top10

Japan: Biggest HPC system world-wide; 2 systems in Top10

China: Multi-billion investments into indigenous supply chain; 2 in Top10

Russia: HPC programme announced 2009

India: USD 1bn announced March 2012

EU: 1 system in Top10 (9th, in May 2012)

HPC in Europe: Problems

EU lost 10% HPC capabilities 2007-2009

Japan overtook EU-27 in capacity

Fragmentation of EU efforts across MS

High reliance on foreign components

European IPR benefiting others

Applications and codes

Deep, diverse HPC user experience and leading capabilities in

power-efficient microelectronicsprocessor designsinterconnects and mass storage systems(sub)system integration software tools

Potential openness and knowledge transfer to industry not yet exploited

HPC in Europe: Potentials

...adopted the HPC Communication

Europe's Place in a Global Race

High-Performance Computing: Europe's Place in a Global Race COM(2012)045, 15/02/2012,http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52012DC0045:EN:NOT

Europe needs native HPC capabilities to remain competitive

Native HPC systems and services would contribute to growth and competitiveness

HPC helps address societal challenges, ranging from climate change to Alzheimer

Peta/Exa transition promises innovation for science applications and computing

High-Performance Computing: Europe's Place in a Global Race COM(2012)045, 15/02/2012,http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52012DC0045:EN:NOT

Governance at EU level: Industrial Technology Platform, PRACE and centres of excellence

Double HPC investment (MS, EU, industry)

Tools: Resource pooling and pre-commercial procurement

Key Policy Actions 1/2

High-Performance Computing: Europe's Place in a Global Race COM(2012)045, 15/02/2012,http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52012DC0045:EN:NOT

Developing the HPC ecosystem: PRACE services to industry, HW&SW co-design

Industrial exploitation: Competence centres, workforce, EU supply

Level-playing field for EU HPC supplier

Tackling market access problems

Additional exploitation obligations?

Key Policy Actions 2/2

...proposed Horizon 2020

Key elements

- For 2014-2020- For R&D and for Innovation projects- Funding: EUR 80bn...- Strong increase for e-Infrastructures

Press Release IP/11/1475 of 30 November 2011Informationsportal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm

...now debated in Parliament and Council

http://europarl.europa.eu/

http://consilium.europa.eu/

European Parliament

Council of the European Union

Preparingfor

Science Data

http://bit.ly/riding_the_wave

”the data themselves become the infrastructure”

Geant High Level Expert Group, Report of October 2011 http://bit.ly/geantEG

Building Infrastructures

http://www.openaire.eu

http://www.oapen.org

http://europeana.eu

maintain, link, extend

plus

http://www.prace-project.euhttp://www.geant.net

Cloud Computing in the Digital Agenda

“Europe should also […] [reinforce] eInfrastructures and […] should develop an EU-wide strategy on 'cloud computing' notably for government and

science. […] The strategy should consider economic, legal and

institutional aspects.”

Adoption foreseen: Q3/2012

A Digital Agenda for Europe COM(2010)245, 19/05/2010,http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:52010DC0245(01):EN:NOT

PointersThe Digital Agenda for Europe

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

The HPC Communication (15/02/2012)http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/12/139

Riding the wave – Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data, October 2010

http://bit.ly/riding_the_wave

GÉANT Expert Group, Report “Knowledge without Borders”

http://bit.ly/geantEG

Horizon 2020 proposalhttp://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm

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