The European High Performance Computing

Strategy

Augusto BURGUEÑO ARJONAHead of Unit eInfrastructure

DG CONNECTEuropean Commission

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Context: HPC and the Digital Single Market (DSM)

strategy

Implementing the HPC strategy in Horizon 2020

Status of the main objectives towards European

Leadership in HPC

Next steps

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Agenda for today

Context: HPC and the Digital Single Market (DSM) strategy

• Better online access to digital goods and services, • Helping to make the EU's digital world a seamless and level marketplace to buy and sell

• An environment where digital networks and services can prosper, • Designing rules which match the pace of technology and support infrastructure development

• Digital as a driver for growth, • Ensuring that Europe's economy, industry and employment take full advantage of what digitalisation

offers

DSM in a nutshell

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DIGITISING INDUSTRY

Context: The EU manufacturing sector accounts for 2 million companies and 33 million jobs;15 % of our GDP, 80% of our exports and 2/3 of R&D investment

Increased use of digital technologies brings innovation into more productive and more efficient production processes, and in new business models

Objective: maximise the benefits from the uptake of digital technologies across European industry, while ensuring that our industrial fabric and our workforce adapt to the digital era

•The necessary infrastructure for innovation will combine Cloud with HPC and Big Data resources and capabilities (e.g. Science Cloud)

HPC and DSM

• The exponential growth of data, networking and computing and the convergence of HPC, Big Data and Cloud will drive societal changes, scientific advances and productivity gains across the economy

• HPC is the engine to power the new global digital economy • HPC intertwines with a growing number of industrial applications and scientific domains • The nature of computing is changing with an increasing number of data-intensive critical applications  

Computing trendsin the context of the DSM

Implementing the HPC strategy in Horizon 2020

Public-Private Partnership (cPPP) with ETP4HPC (January 2014)

Key EU developments HPC

Communication from the EC "High-Performance Computing: Europe's place in a global race" (2012)

Council Conclusions on High-Performance Computing (Competitiveness Council – 2013)

Set-up of the European Technology Platform on High-Performance Computing (ETP4HPC - 2011) – issue of Strategic Research Agenda on HPC (2012)

Horizon 2020 programme including HPC Calls adopted (end of 2013)

HPC strategy combining three elements:

(a) Computer Science: towards exascale HPC; A special FET initiative focussing on the next generations of exascale computing technology 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

Excellence in HPC applications

(Centres of Excellence)

FETHPC: EU development of Exascale technologies

Access to best HPC for industry and academia -

PRACE

Interrelation betweenthe 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

Scope of the cPPP on HPC(€700 million in Horizon 2020)

Links with other H2020 activities

ApplicationsSocietal challengesScientific strategic

applicationsEmerging domains

Exascale technologiesArchitectures, programming.

environments, tools…Exascale Prototypes

HPC Infrastructure (PRACE)

HPC CapabilityHPC Services

Support to innovation

TrainingEducationSkills

CLOUD

HPC

BIG DATA

SMEs Services, Competence Centres

Flagships (e.g. HBP)

Clouds for Science

Global System Science basic hw/sw technologies

for exascale (e.g. low-power micro/nano-electronics and (ECSEL) and Photonics)

Innovative methods and algorithms

Global digital strategy in DSM: HPC + Big Data + Cloud

AdvancedComputing

HPC Overall strategy Horizon 2020 Calls 2014-2017

ApplicationsSocietal challenges

Scientific strategic applicationsEmerging domains (Big Data)New methods and algorithms

Exascale technologiesArchitectures, programming.

environments, tools…Exascale Prototypes

Pan-European HPC InfrastructureHPC CapabilityHPC Services

Support to innovationTraining

EducationSkills

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€)

HPC €317.4 million in H2020

WP2014-15 / 166.4 M€(~144 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€)

(*) pending formal approval

I4MS - Fortissimo(10 m€)

EU-Brazil on HPC(2 m€)

Thematic AreasFunded Proposals

Proposal Fields Abstract

EoCoE Renewable Energy

Facilitating the use of virtual prototyping; development of new numerical tools & libraries

NoMaD Materials Modelling &

Design

Materials modelling, design, development and application, integration of computational materials science efforts and resources across Europe

MaX Computational first-principles quantum modelling of materials; applications in a number of industrial sectors

ECAMMolecular &

Atomic Modelling

Boost the research potential of European SMEs and Industry by giving them access to HPC enabled software gathered under one heading.

ESiWACEWeather &

Climate Change Modelling

Improve efficiency and productivity of numerical weather & climate simulation on HPC platforms by supporting the end-to-end workflow of global Earth system-modelling

POP HPCImprove the performance of leading-edge applications and support innovation through services especially valuable for SMEs, typically those with a lack of in-house HPC skills and expertise

CoEGSS Global System Science

The HPC services offered, in conjunction with a global synthetic micro population, will enable progress in modelling complex socio-technical systems

BioExcel Biomolecular Research

Software infrastructure improving the availability, efficiency, scalability and usability of selected Life Science HPC software

EINFRA-5-2015 CoEs

• Status of the main objectives towards European Leadership in HPC

•The aggregate peak performance of supercomputers in Europe rose more than ten-fold in the last 4 years

•€1 invested in HPC on average returns €867 in increased revenue/income & €69 in profits

•Most European HPC stakeholders think that Europe's HPC capabilities got stronger in the past 2-3 years 

Experts' view

Basic premise of the European HPC strategy:Europe should be a global HPC leader by 2020

excelling in the supply and use of HPC services and technologies, in all domains (for industry, science and society)

Alternative: A follower /buyer depending on world competitors for technology that is critical for innovation and competitiveness

Four specific objectives: A world-class European HPC infrastructure for academia and

industry

EU independent access to HPC technologies, systems and services

A pan-European HPC governance scheme

Ensure the EU's position as a global actor

Summary assessment of progress towards the objectives (1/2)

Growing awareness at EU and national level of the importance of HPC for the competitiveness of European science and industry

Advances in Europe's position as a provider of high-end supercomputing resources... but still not matching the EU's economic importance: e.g. only 1 system in the top 10 and 3 in the top 20, dropping from a peak 4 and 7 systems in 2012

Significant additional investments will be needed for Europe to stay in the HPC race (IDC study): additional €3 billion in 5 years or €5 billion in 7 years to match the developments of Europe's main competitors

The governance of HPC has evolved in the last few years, but there is a need to efficiently coordinate the different national HPC policies and the European strategy to reach the huge investments required, and to pool and rationalise available HPC resources at EU-level– in particular in view of the upcoming European Science Cloud

Summary assessment of progress towards the objectives (2/2)

The EU is well positioned to manage a strong programme for independent access to technology and assemble exascale HPC capability that could achieve world-class, if not global leadership, status

Industrial access to HPC has improved…. however, greater outreach is needed to make HPC resources and software available to a broader base of industry/SMEs and easing the access to innovative European HPC applications that are currently in limited use

There is still a shortage of qualified HPC job applicants

Protective barriers of the main HPC world-competitors (U.S.A., Japan and China) are still in place –by contrast, the EU is the most open market both for commercial and government procurements.

Next steps

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Strengthening the European governance in HPC To support the evolution of the HPC infrastructure (including PRACE)

as a key component of the European Science Cloud, through the coordination capacity deployment at national and European level to match the needs of the researchers and research infrastructures

Support to the "democratisation" of HPC - taking advantage of the convergence of HPC, Big Data and Cloud

support the easier access to HPC resources (to industry/SMEs and researchers in particular for the European Science Cloud)

"cloudification of HPC applications" to facilitate industrial use

promote HPC in curricula/skill development in a multidisciplinary way, and exploiting the combination of Web-programming skills with cloud-based access to HPC resources

Development of the European HPC eco-system

EXDCI support action (launched in Sept. 2015) to coordinate the strategy of the European HPC ecosystem (PRACE, ETP4HPC, EESI, Centres of Excellence)

Continuing the support to the HPC strategy in three axis: European HPC infrastructure around PRACE, autonomous technology and strengthening Europe's HPC supply chain, and Centres of Excellence in HPC applications for key scientific and industrial domains

Ensuring the coordination of technology developers and suppliers, users and procurers in Europe

Integration of the technology building blocks developed in the R&I programmes into large-scale platforms with a co-design approach

complement the effort of large-scale integration with coordinated acquisition strategy at EU level of world-class systems to transition the European leading machines to the new computing generation

• Register at http://ec.europa.eu/d4science to join the conversation

• How to foster the HPC ecosystem?

• User-driven, with the application users and owners playing a decisive role in governance: Who are the users, which application, what is the role of the users?

• Integrated: encompassing not only HPC software but also relevant aspects of hardware, data management/storage, connectivity, security, etc.; What type of integration and how it will be implemented?

• multidisciplinary: with domain expertise co-located alongside HPC system, software and algorithm expertise; Which expertise is available?

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Digital4Scienceplatform

Next steps inHorizon 2020

• Launch of WP2014-2015 projects and establishment of first 8 Centres of Excellence (ongoing)

• Report to Parliament and Council on European HPC strategy (end 2015)

• 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€

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Projects from 2014 Call:Building technology 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) &

Potential 2nd round of CoEs

HPC cPPP Indicative timeline in H2020

HPC Ecosystem development

Projects start

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