The EuroHPC Summit Week (EHPCSW) 2022 will gather the main European HPC stakeholders from technology suppliers and HPC infrastructures to scientific and industrial HPC users in Europe. As in previous years, PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, co-locates its Scientific and Industrial Conference (PRACEdays22) at the EuroHPC Summit Week 2022. Furthermore, the EHPCSW 2022 will provide a great opportunity for the attendees to network.
Videos of the plenary sessions can be watched on the PRACE YouTube channel.
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The main organisers of the EHPCSW 2022 are the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), and the European Technology Platform for High-Performance Computing (ETP4HPC). The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and the European Commission (EC) are also involved in the organisation of the conference. The logistical organisation is supported by a local host: for the 2022 edition, this will be GENCI (Grand équipement national de calcul intensif).
Principal characteristics of the Peer-Review process for different types of calls for proposals at PRACE and EuroHPC JU.
Principal characteristics of the Peer-Review process for different types of calls for proposals at PRACE and EuroHPC JU.
Principal characteristics of the Peer-Review process for different types of calls for proposals at PRACE and EuroHPC JU.
new Council regulation, work programme, available HPC resources, HPC access for applicants, upcoming activities and calls
Anders will briefly touch on the JU’s achievements so far and present the JU’s new missions following the adoption of the new regulation in 2021, including the selection of hosting entities to host and operate new supercomputers and the acquisition of the first European exascale supercomputers and quantum computers.
Daniel will present current and upcoming opportunities at the EuroHPC JU to apply for R&D&I grants. The JU has recently launched an open call for European Centres of Excellence for HPC Applications (CoEs) and is accepting submissions for proposals that will support the transition towards the exascale and post–exascale era.
Evangelos will present the available and upcoming HPC resources of the EuroHPC JU. The EuroHPC JU has so far procured 8 supercomputers, with 4 petascale systems becoming operational in 2021 and 3 more systems expected to become operational in 2022, and an ongoing procurement process for a further pre-exascale system. He will also lay out the JU’s goals for resources over the next 5-year period, which include the procurement of the 1st European exascale machine, alongside a number of midscale computers, and will also present the JU’s access policy and what the criteria are to access these EuroHPC resources.
With the participation of:
Gabriella Scipione (Cineca)
Sergi Girona (BSC)
Fredrik Robertsen (CSC)
The objective of this workshop is to present and discuss the current European HPC landscape and the efforts undertaken to further deploy and consolidate the position of Europe in the global HPC environment.
The workshop will be divided in two parts. In the first part, the diversity of the European HPC ecosystem will be presented around the Infrastructure, Applications and Technology pillars, with participation of the key institutions GÉANT, SKAO, ETP4HPC cPPP, Fenix infrastructure, CASTIEL / EuroCC and FocusCoE coordination projects, the European Processor Initiative (EPI) technology project and TERATEC Campus to showcase their role, complementarities, interactions and coordination process.
In the second part, the present and future deployment of HPC Infrastructure in Europe and its coordination of competence development will be analysed, chiefly the EuroHPC investments in Infrastructure and Research, within the framework of ESFRI roadmap, the role of PRACE RI in this framework, complemented by the relation with EOSC initiative.
The second parts will end with round table discussions to assess the integration of actors, investments and competences towards a well-integrated, strong, world-class HPC ecosystem, what projects to deploy that vision and what structure to guarantee the delivery of a persistent set of service to the benefit of academic and industrial users of HPC.
The speaker will review challenges and opportunities in international scientific cooperation on High-Performance Computing and related fields. It will provide some practical experience and reference to projects within the EU various R&D framework programs and with industry. It will conclude with some forecasts for the future ahead.
The European HPC CoE Council (HPC3) & FocusCoE
Representatives of the current HPC CoEs will take part in the round tables:
BioExcel, ChEESE, CompBioMed, EoCoE, EsiWACE2, EXCELLERAT, HiDALGO, MaX, POP, TREX, NOMAD, PerMedCoE, CoEC, RAISE
Representatives of the current HPC CoEs will take part in the round tables:
BioExcel, ChEESE, CompBioMed, EoCoE, EsiWACE2, EXCELLERAT, HiDALGO, MaX, POP, TREX, NOMAD, PerMedCoE, CoEC, RAISE
Bastian will give a glance on the world-wide collaborations of the High Performance Computing Centre Stuttgart (Germany). After this short introduction, concrete examples on the centres collaboration with Japanese colleagues and institutions will be presented, which covers a series of workshops now for 18 years, bringing together the Japanese and German HPC communities.
On 8 February 2022, the Commission adopted the European Chips Act package, which will support reaching the ambitious goal set to double the EU’s current semiconductors production market share to 20% in 2030. The “Chips for Europe Initiative” is part of the Chips Act and aims to support large-scale technological capacity building and innovation in the Union. The Initiative will support the development of pilot lines to prototype and scale up innovation, to bridge from the lab to the fab. The initiative will also support design capacities and a network of competence centres across the Union. This presentation will outline the large-scale design capacities for integrated semiconductor technologies, and indicate how these relate to the development of European processors for HPC.
In May 2021 a European working group was established to work out recommendations and a roadmap for European sovereignty in open-source hardware, software and RISC-V technologies. This working group consisted of representatives of large enterprises, SME’s and RTO’s who are strong believers in RISC-V towards high performance computing and embedded applications in multiple application domains, as a.o. automotive, industrial automation, networking and communications. A first report has been delivered in November 2021. It explained increased adoption of open-source and how open-source fits into different value chains. Key players and market drivers have been described. An initial roadmap has been worked out in terms of future expectations on different types of processor architectures, accelerators, domain-specific applications, peripherals, software and EDA-tools. It showed a vision on how a future open-source repository and landscape could look like for Europe. A second and final report is expected end-of-March 2022. This report is translating the vision into an implementation program over the next 10 years. It focuses on RISC-V, it’s value and different business models and strategies on the market. Furthermore the gaps and future needs have been identified on short-, mid- and long-term, and have been translated into an implementation program based on a number of Focus Topics.
SiPearl is the European Company, incorporated in France, that has been created in 2019 to bring to the market the first European HPC general purpose microprocessor, totally designed in Europe. SiPearl is one of the partners of the European Processor Initiative (EPI), one of the most important European projects toward European sovereignty in microelectronics. SiPearl is EPI’s industrial hand and intends to release its first generation of microprocessor for the EuroHPC Exascale supercomputers.
In this presentation, SiPearl will be shortly presented, as well as SiPearl technology strategy toward full sovereignty, from IP to manufacturing.
Over that last 3 decades, we have witnessed a transition from closed software ecosystems being the foundation for HPC, enterprise, and business to open source software ecosystems based on Linux and other software in the stack. The combination of current technology trends, the slowing of Moore’s Law, and cost prohibitive silicon manufacturing inhibit significant power-performance gains by relying on traditional closed ecosystems, especially in HPC, technology pushed to the extreme. This new regime forces systems to be much more specialized to achieve the power-performance profiles required for a supercomputer. In the past, HPC has led the way forward, defining the bleeding edge of technology. HPC can do this again with open hardware, as it has done in software with adopting Linux and open source in general. The RISC-V ISA provides the open standard in HW to enable this open HPC ecosystem. Much like Arm, RISC-V can follow the same, now accelerated path from embedded/IoT to HPC. This is not only a technology imperative, but one born out of current geopolitics. Given this technology and geopolitical backdrop, we describe how Europe can exploit its resources targeting research and development for technological independence.
Call for Contributions
Call for Contributions
Leonardo is a precursor-of-exascale class system, one of the three funded by the European Commission through the EuroHPC programme and by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR). It will be installed on the newly built data center located in the Bologna Technopole, where Emilia Romagna Region and MUR had already established a collaboration in order to promote and develop the project to a national and international level. This collaboration was successful in obtaining the decision from the ECMWF council to relocate its own data center in Bologna Technopole and to include the hosting of INFN main data center. Therefore, by virtue of hosting ECMWF, CINECA and INFN data centers, Bologna Technopole raises to become one of the main European hubs for computing and data processing.
Leonardo is based on Atos BullSequana XH2000 technology, with over 13,000 GPUs based on NVIDIA Ampere architecture and NVIDIA Mellanox HDR InfiniBand.
Leonardo will provides to users two main partitions: “Booster” with GPU accelerators and “DataCentric” with more traditional X86 technology. Leonardo is a system capable of nearly 250 PFlops and equipped with over 100 petabytes of storage capacity. The system will provide 10-20 times the computing power of the current CINECA flagship system Marconi-100.
"MareNostrum 5" is designed to enable the science from all users and all domains, from engineering, chemistry, climate or energy, with a diversity of system architectures, using numerical methods or AI codes. MareNostrum5 is a system with a large partition of general-purpose processors and a significantly large GPU partition of the latest available processors in the market, all with a centralized high speed and high capacity disk, and an HSM tape library for data storage.
The acquisition and operation of the EuroHPC supercomputer is funded jointly by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, through the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility and the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, as well as the Participating States Spain, Portugal, Croatia, and Turkey.
It will be installed at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and managed by BSC operations department, including the groups of system administration, facility management, and user support. This later group will be complemented with user support from Portugal and Turkey.
The selection of Barcelona as host for MareNostrum5 includes as well the development of an Experimental Platform to create supercomputing technologies “made in Europe”.
Call for Contributions
Call for Contributions
PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC 2022
Winner Talk
Mario Gaimann & Raska Soemantoro: SoHPC Best Performance
Jenay Patel & Carola Ciaramelletti: SOHPC Ambassador
Marija Vranic: PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
Panel Members
Marie-Alice Foujols
Climate modeling and HPC expert, CNRS, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France
Kristel Michielsen
Head of RG `Quantum Information Processing’ and JUNIQ
Jülich Supercomputer Centre
Marija Vranic
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa
R. Payri, F.J. Salvador, M. Carreres, C. Moreno-Montagud
With the timely focus on energy transition simulation is poised as the perfect tool to analyze alternatives to current energy production using hydrocarbons.
This presentation will focus on center of excellence and European projects examples of ongoing efforts towards understanding combustion alternatives but also how to minimize energy consumption for HPC.
Panel Session #1: Skills needs of "Supply-side" industry
Workshop Description
There is a growing ambition to develop globally competitive European HPC technologies together with scientific but also industrial uses. It is also a major strategic objective of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU), which is hugely dependent upon nurturing the right skills and talent to innovate. A previous workshop focused on skills development for industry end-users of HPC. There has been a recognized need to also examine the education and training landscape in the context of an industry that supply and/or develop HPC technology, i.e. what skills are needed to make new European breakthroughs in HPC technology. Moreover, there are ample opportunities where this industry sector can play a larger role in developing the skills of the end-user community. Therefore this workshop aims to reflect and discuss potential activities that will lead to better planning of education and training for industry from HPC technology supply to HPC use.
The workshop will consist of a mix of short presentations and panel discussions from key stakeholders across industry and other HPC technology/training organizations. The topics at the workshop should encompass:
• Methods to engage with industry, e.g. to capture/monitor skills needs
• Industry training success stories
• Lessons learned from past approaches and activities
• Industry expectations now and future, from hard to soft skills
• How to build different career paths with the support of HPC education
• What are suitable curricula and formats
• Collaboration with supply chain industry for educating/training end-users
• Other perspectives from the speakers
The workshop welcomes all HPC training stakeholders - from training providers/funders to industry representatives who are training target audiences.
EDF is currently actively investigating the potential applications of quantum technologies to its businesses. We will present EDF's expectations and positioning on the different technological axes of the French National Quantum Plan, our use cases currently under study, our current and planned partnerships, as well as our contributions to the development of the "quantum ecosystem.
In my presentation, I will pinpoint the differences between HPC users from academia, big industry and SMEs, with a particular focus on the latter group, as they are a vital aspect of the activities within the National Competence Centres in HPC and associated technologies (HPC+). All 33 NCCs are currently in the process of acquiring or widening the necessary capabilities to support these user types in the best possible way.
Through the experience in the EuroCC project, it became clear that the NCCs need to be also able to speak the language of the SMEs in order to succeed. The particular challenge lies in dealing with a user group which partially has low or nearly no expertise in the use of HPC+, but is very solution-focused. Still, there is a high amount of untapped potential in the uptake of certain SME-domains, which can be only explored by a well-established interaction mechanism between NCCs and the SMEs.
The FF4EuroHPC project continues the Fortissimo approach of executing “experiments” with SMEs, delivering real business impact through use of HPC. The purpose is to demonstrate how SMEs can benefit from the use of advanced HPC services (for example, modelling & simulation, data analytics, machine-learning and AI, and possibly combinations thereof). Since the FF4EuroHPC experiments address business challenges of the participating SMEs, they encounter the general issues faced by SMEs when seeking to transition their business processes (be they design, operation or the products and services they offer to customers) to include HPC applications software, methods and computational services. Depending on the specific competencies and existing practices of the SME, there is a need for support in some or all of the following: identifying the right software suites and adapting and/or integrating these into the workflows required for the business challenges; collaboration and consultation on computational methods for the application field and on the deployment on, and use of, HPC computing facilities; establishing collaboration frameworks to ensure the continued operation and further expansion of the HPC components in a commercial setting.
From our point of view HPC has always been a leverage for democratization of high fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations. By reducing the simulation costs, HPC can make HiFi CFD available for organizations with small or no budget for simulations. SMEs can play the role of trait-d’union between the world HPC and these organizations.
Moreover, SMEs are a flexible organizations to make innovation and HPC can strongly improve their efficiency and effectiveness. By freeing SMEs from the burden of managing infrastructures and of keeping the fast pace of the computing world, European and National initiatives in HPC can make the SMEs focus on innovation in their own fields.
Resources, expertise and formation are the main needs HPC initiatives can satisfy for SMEs.
Accessing computational resources in the form of infrastructure and platform services can provide SMEs with tangible tools to easily distribute software as services and strongly reduce the cost of a single simulation. HPC experts can support SMEs in approaching complex hardware, in reducing costs by performance improvement and most importantly in this moment in assaying the new wave of Quantum Computing. Concurrently, SMEs can be enforced by continuous formation on cutting-edge HPC technologies and programming models.
Panel Session #2: Skills needs and collaboration with stakeholders across the HPC value chain
Workshop Description
There is a growing ambition to develop globally competitive European HPC technologies together with scientific but also industrial uses. It is also a major strategic objective of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU), which is hugely dependent upon nurturing the right skills and talent to innovate. A previous workshop focused on skills development for industry end-users of HPC. There has been a recognised need to also examine the education and training landscape in the context of industry that supply and/or develop HPC technology, i.e. what skills are needed to make new European breakthroughs in HPC technology. Moreover, there are ample opportunities where this industry sector can play a larger role in developing the skills of the end-user community. Therefore this workshop aims to reflect and discuss potential activities that will lead to better planning of education and training for industry from HPC technology supply to HPC use.
The workshop will consists of a mix of short presentations and panel discussions from key stakeholders across industry and other HPC technology/training organisations. The topics at the workshop should encompass:
• Methods to engage with industry, e.g. to capture/monitor skills needs
• Industry training success stories
• Lessons learnt from past approaches and activities
• Industry expectations now and future, from hard to soft skills
• How to build different career paths with the support of HPC education
• What are suitable curricula and formats
• Collaboration with supply chain industry for educating/training end-users
• Other perspectives from the speakers
The workshop welcomes all HPC training stakeholders - from training providers/funders to industry representatives who are training target audiences.
