A presentation on High-Performance Computing Research in Europe by Dr Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos at HPC and Big Data 2016, Central London

1. High-Performance Computing
Research in Europe
Dr Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos
Future and Emerging Technologies
DG CONNECT
European Commission

2. Horizon 2020 - the EU framework programme for research
and innovation 2014-2020: a stronger, clearer focus
Excellent
Science
24,4 B€
Industrial
Leadership
17B€
Societal
Challenges
29,6 B€
H2020 Budget: 77B€
OTHERS: 5,8B€ (Spreading excellence & widening participation, Science & Society, JRC, EIT)
(current prices)

3.  HPC strategy combining three elements:
(a) Computer Science: towards exascale HPC; A special FET
initiative focussing on the next generations of exascale computing as a key
horizontal enabler for advanced modelling, simulation and big-data applications [HPC
in FET]
(b) achieving excellence in HPC applications; Centres of Excellence
for scientific/industrial HPC applications in (new) domains that are most important
for Europe [e-infrastructures]
(c) providing access to the best supercomputing facilities and
services for both industry and academia; PRACE - world-class HPC
infrastructure for the best research [e-infrastructures]
• complemented with training, education and skills development in
HPC
An integrated HPC
approach in H2020
"Excellent Science"
part of H2020

4. Excellence in HPC
applications
(Centres of Excellence)
EU development of Exascale
technologies
Access to best HPC for
industry and academia
Interrelation between
the three elements
• specifications of exascale
prototypes
• technological options for
future systems
• Collaboration of HPC Centres
and application CoEs
• provision of HPC capabilities
and expertise
• identify applications for co-
design of exascale systems
• Innovative methods and
algorithms for extreme
parallelism of
traditional/emerging
applications
"Excellent Science"
part of H2020

5. PRACE is an international not-for-profit association under Belgian law,
with its seat in Brussels.
PRACE counts 25 members and 2 observers.
The PRACE Hosting Members are France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
PRACE is governed by the PRACE Council in which each member
has a seat. The daily management of the association is delegated to
the Board of Directors.
PRACE is funded by its members as well as through a series of
implementation projects supported by the European Commission.
Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe
The European HPC Ecosystem: Access to best HPC
www.prace-ri.eu

6. MareNostrum: IBM
BSC, Barcelona, Spain
JUQUEEN: IBM
BlueGene/Q
GAUSS/FZJ
Jülich, Germany
CURIE: Bull Bullx
GENCI/CEA
Bruyères-le-Châtel, France
SuperMUC: IBM
GAUSS/LRZ
Garching, Germany
FERMI: IBM BlueGene/Q
CINECA , Bologna, Italy
Hazel Hen: Cray
GAUSS/HLRS,
Stuttgart, Germany
4 Hosting Members offering core hours on
6 world-class machines
PRACE
Access through PRACE Peer Review
Criterion: Scientific Excellence
The European HPC Ecosystem: Access to best HPC

7. ETP4HPC Association, the European Technology Platform for
High Performance Computing: An industry-led forum founded
by stakeholders of HPC technology
Open membership for
organizations having HPC R&D
based in Europe
70 organizations are currently
members
www.etp4hpc.eu
The European HPC Ecosystem: Technology development

8. Through the Strategic Research
Agenda, the ETP4HPC Association has
identified research areas and topics to
reach a stronger European HPC
environment that can benefit Europe and
the rest of the world.
The European HPC Ecosystem: Technology development

9. Horizon 2020 may be implemented through Public-Private Partnerships
where all the partners concerned commit to support the development and
implementation of R&I activities of strategic importance to the
Union.
 The Union enters a contractual agreement (cPPP) with private partners
 Commitment for the duration of the Horizon 2020 programme
Eight cPPPs launched in January 2014:
Factories of the Future (FoF), Energy-efficient Buildings (EeB),
European Green Vehicles Initiative (EGVI), Sustainable Process Industry (SPIRE),
Advanced 5G network (5G), Robotics, Photonics
High Performance Computing
• Public-Private Partnership with ETP4HPC
• Based on the ETP4HPC Strategic Research Agenda
• Started 1st January 2014
• 700 m€ EU funding for the period 2014-2020
Public-Private Partnerships in H2020

10. • To build a European world-class HPC technology value
chain that is globally competitive - synergy between the
three pillars of the HPC ecosystem (technology development,
applications and computing infrastructure)
• To achieve a critical mass of convergent resources in order to
increase the competitiveness of European HPC vendors and
solutions
• To leverage the transformative power of HPC in order to boost
European competitiveness in science and business
• To expand the HPC user base, especially SMEs, and to
facilitate the participation of SMEs in the provision of competitive
HPC technology solutions
• To develop a EU leadership and world-wide excellence in
key application domains for industry, science and society
• provision of innovative solutions for grand societal challenges
• development of the future applications for the exascale
computing generation
Public-Private
Partnership in HPC
General objectives

11. 2014-2015 Calls
of the HPC cPPP
• €140m funding committed
• Projects start: Autumn 2015
• Complete HPC R&D project portfolio covering all
elements of HPC stack
• Multi-partner consortia involved in all projects
• Specific actions to further develop the European
HPC ecosystem
• Centres of Excellence for key HPC applications

12. HPC
Ecosystem
EXDCI
Eurolab-4-HPC
ExCAPE
GreenFLASH
READEX
ESCAPE
INTERTWINE
ALLScale
ANTAREX
ExaFLOW
ComPat
NLAFET
ExaHYPE
NEXTGenIO
SAGE
ExaNEST
ExaNoDe
ECOSCALE
EXTRA
Mont-Blanc 3
Mango
The new European HPC
research landscape
Project Start: Autumn 2015
BioExcel COEGSS EoCoE E-CAM ESiWACE MAX NOMAD PoP
Centres of Excellence
Biomolecular Global
systems
Energy
Simulation
Modelling
Weather
Climate
Materials Materials
Performance
optimisation

13. Future HPC Calls 2016-2017

14. HPC-related calls
Horizon 2020
••• 14
• WP2016-2017
 Support to the Pan-European HPC infrastructure
(eInfrastructure)
• Implementation of PRACE (PRACE-4IP) – 15 m€
• Procurement of innovative solutions in HPC (PPI) – 26 m€
• HPC e-infrastructure for the Human Brain Project – 25 m€
 Support to exascale technologies development (FET)
• Co-design of HPC systems and applications – 41 m€
• Transition to exascale computing – 40 m€
• Exascale Ecosystem Development – 4 m€

15. Headline research challenges FETHPC 2016/2017 Calls
• Co-design of HPC systems and applications: bigger projects
with 10-20m indicative funding per project [2016]
• Transition to exascale computing : smaller focused projects
with 2-4m indicative funding per project [2017]
• High productivity programming environments for exascale
• Exascale system software and management
• Exascale I/O and storage in the presence of multiple tiers of data
storage:
• Supercomputing for Extreme Data and emerging HPC use modes
• Mathematics and algorithms for extreme scale HPC systems and
applications working with extreme data
• Exascale Ecosystem Development : Coordination and Support
Actions with 1-2m indicative funding per project [2017]

16. HPC Overall strategy Horizon 2020
Calls 2014-2017
Applications
Societal challenges
Scientific strategic applications
Emerging domains (Big Data)
New methods and algorithms
Exascale technologies
Architectures, programming.
environments, tools…
Exascale Prototypes
Pan-European HPC
Infrastructure
HPC Capability
HPC Services
Support to innovation
Training
Education
Skills
CLOUDS
ADVANCED
COMPUTING
SMEs
Services, Competence
Centres
Flagship
Applications
(HBP)
Clouds for
Science
PRACE-4IP
(15 m€)
Centres of Excellence
(40 m€)
Network of SME
competence centres
(2 m€)
Core technologies (93,4 m€)
Ecosystem development (4 m€)
HIGH PERFORMANCE
COMPUTING
WP2014-15 ~155 M€
(~140 in the cPPP)
WP2016-17 ~151 M€
(85 in the cPPP)
PRACE (15 m€)
PPI for HPC (26 m€)
HBP – HPC (25 m€)
Co-design (41 m€)
Transition to exascale (40 m€)
Ecosystem development (4 m€)

17. 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
l l l l l l l l ll
Projects from 2014 Call:
Technology building blocks
&
1st round CoEs
Projects from 2016 Call:
1st level co-design
Projects from 2017 Call:
Exascale transition
Future 2018/19/20 Calls:
• Extreme Scale Demonstrators
(2nd-level co-design / integration)
• Exascale transition
• 2nd round of CoEs
HPC PPP timeline in H2020
(indicative)
HPC Ecosystem development
Projects start
Exascale
Technologies &
Applications

18. "Notre ambition c'est que d'ici 2020, l'Europe se
classe dans le top 3 mondial du calcul à haute
performance."
European Commission President
Jean-Claude Juncker
"Our ambition is that until 2020,
Europe is in the world top 3
of high performance computing."
27 October 2015

19. Thank you for your attention!
Email: Panagiotis.Tsarchopoulos@ec.europa.eu
Single point of access to all information about the EC HPC
strategy, work programmes and HPC related news:
ec.europa.eu/horizon2020-hpc