HPC 2015-16 | European update
currently under development need to be integrated into large-scale platforms using a co-design approach. Te platforms will serve as stepping stones towards better scientific and industrial use of the underlying system design and technology. Exascale applications soſtware packages will then be ported, enabling monitoring of extreme parallelism, reliability, resiliency, and scalability. Tere needs to be a coordinated
acquisition strategy at the EU level. In cooperation with Prace and member states, platform integration will be complemented with a plan for the procurement of pre- and
“We need to support the democratisation of HPC”
exascale systems. Te huge investments required for the future generation of computing systems need the different national HPC policies and the European strategy to be tightly coordinated. Tis is critical, if Europe wants to remain competitive with the USA, China, and Japan. We need to support the ‘democratisation’ of HPC resources, by taking advantage of the
opportunities offered by the convergence of HPC, big data and cloud to spread the use of HPC more widely. For Europe to become a hub of world-leading innovation requires that new, world-class computing capabilities should be easier to access and use across Europe. Such platforms could include on- demand HPC-empowered cloud services for industry, SMEs and science – in particular through the medium of the European Science Cloud.
HPC is critical for data-driven science,
so we need to discuss with e-infrastructure and research infrastructure stakeholders (including ESFRI) how best to integrate HPC with the European Science Cloud through such means as easier cloud-based access to HPC resources, including Prace Tier-0 and national Tier-1 and Tier-2 systems. Porting HPC applications and codes to
the cloud will facilitate their access and use by industry, in particular SMEs; for example, by establishing libraries or ‘clearinghouses’ of soſtware and tools to help disseminate innovative European HPC soſtware that is now in limited use. Options could include both Open Source for free use, or for pay- per-use in cooperation with the independent soſtware vendors (ISVs).
Tere is also a need to promote HPC in
academic curricula, and skill development programmes with a multidisciplinary approach, and to explore new training programmes that combine web- programming skills (which are more widely diffused than HPC/parallel programming skills) with cloud-based access to HPC. l
Leonardo Flores Añover and Augusto Burgueño Arjona are in DG Connect, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology. However, the views expressed in the article are the sole responsibility of the authors and in no way represent the view of the European Commission and its services.
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