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High Performance Computing First Horizon 2020 Calls (2014-2015) Dr Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos Future and Emerging Technologies DG CONNECT European Commission the EU framework programme for research and innovation 2014-2020 1

Three priorities Excellent science Industrial leadership Societal challenges Coverage of the full innovation chain Excellent science Societal challenges Industrial leadership Basic Demonstration Research Technology R&D Large scale validation Prototyping Pilots Market uptake 2

H2020 Budget: 77B * 31% (24,4B )* Excellent science + EIT, JRC, Widening, SwfS 8% (5,9B )* 22% (17B )* Industrial leadership Societal challenges 39% (29,7B )* *in current prices (inflation rate est. 2%) Horizon 2020 and partnering Public private partnerships: Through Joint Technology Initiatives or other formal structures (Art. 187) Through contractual agreements, which provide inputs for work programmes Only when criteria met, e.g. clear commitments from private partners Public public partnerships: Through «ERA-Nets» for topping up individual calls/actions (replacing current ERA-Net, ERA-Net Plus, Inco-Net, Inno-net) Through participation in joint programmes between Member States (Art. 185) Supporting agendas of Joint Programming Initiatives when in line with Horizon 2020 Only when criteria met, e.g. financial commitments of participating countries European Innovation Partnerships: Not funding instruments, but for coordination with broader policies and programmes 3

Public-Private Partnerships (Article 19 H2020 FP) Joint Technology Initiatives (under Article 187 FR) Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Clean Sky (Aeronautics) 2 Fuel Cell and Hydrogen 2 Bio-based Industries Electronic components and systems Contractual Public-Private Partnerships Factories of the Future Energy-efficient Buildings European Green Vehicles Initiative Sustainable Process Industry Photonics Robotics High Performance Computing Advanced 5G networks for the Future Internet The European HPC strategy 8 4

Importance of HPC Weather, Climate & Earth Sciences Bio/Life Sciences New applications e.g. Health, Big data Fundamental sciences: Physics, Chemistry, Material Sciences, Astrophysics Industrial & Engineering 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) Establishment of the European Technology Platform on High-Performance Computing (ETP4HPC - 2012) and Strategic Research Agenda on HPC (2013) Horizon 2020 programme adopted (end of 2013) Public-Private Partnership with ETP4HPC (1st January 2014) 5

Communication on HPC COM "High-Performance Computing: Europe's place in a global race" (adopted 15 Feb 2012) HPC as a crucial asset for the EU's innovation capacity, bringing innovation for societal, scientific and economic needs Vision: Ensure European leadership in the supply and use of HPC systems and services by 2020 HPC drivers : Addressing Societal/Scientific/Industrial challenges more effectively Industry is increasingly depending on HPC to fulfil the need to innovate in products and services (better jobs) Transition from petascale to exascale computing creates new opportunities for both science applications and computing technologies Gaining independent access to HPC systems and services for Europe supports growth and competitiveness in industry and the economy Competitiveness Council Conclusions 29/30 May 2013 on HPC Communication HPC is an important asset for the EU's innovation capacity of strategic importance to the EU's industrial and scientific capabilities as well as its citizens: developing innovative industrial products and services, increasing competitiveness, addressing societal and scientific grand challenges more effectively. All relevant actors, public and private, need to work in partnership; Europe has the technology, knowledge and human skills to develop capabilities covering the whole technological spectrum of the next HPC generation (exascale computing) Importance of developing state-of-the-art HPC technologies, systems, software, applications and services in Europe Invites the EC to elaborate its plans for HPC to support academic and industrial research and innovation under H2020; 6

Partner of the HPC PPP: European Technology Platform for HPC and PPP An industry-led forum founded by stakeholders of HPC technology Open to any actor of the HPC ecosystem in Europe Through the Strategic Research Agenda, the ETP4HPC has identified research areas and topics to reach a stronger European HPC ecosystem that can benefit Europe and the rest of the world. Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with ETP4HPC (started 1st January 2014) - 700 m (2014-2020) www.etp4hpc.eu PPP in HPC: General objectives 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 next exascale computing generation 7

The exascale generation! The "exaflop machine" is not a goal per se, it's the "exascale computing" challenges: energy consumption, programmability, reliability, software, algorithms, applications Synergetic approach combining supply and demand (a) (b) (c) Technology towards exascale HPC; R&D of HPC technology covering the whole spectrum from processors and system architectures to high-level software and tools to delivering prototype exascale systems and associated applications World-class HPC infrastructure for academia and industry, providing next generation machines to increase competitiveness in science, industry and SMEs Centres of Excellence in HPC applications; development, optimization and provisioning to fully exploit the performance of current and future exascale computing systems Integrated approach for HPC in Excellent Science 16 8

Excellent Science pillar of H2020 European Research Council Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions Future and Emerging Technologies Research infrastructures programme An integrated HPC approach Excellent Science HPC strategy combining three elements: (a) (b) (c) 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] providing access to the best supercomputing facilities and services for both industry and academia; PRACE - world-class HPC infrastructure for the best research [HPC in e-infrastructures] achieving excellence in HPC applications; Centres of Excellence for scientific/industrial HPC applications in (new) domains that are most important for Europe [HPC in e-infrastructures] complemented with training, education and skills development in HPC (a) and (c) will be implemented in the context of the HPC Public- Private Partnership 9

HPC in FET 19 An integrated HPC approach in H2020 "Excellent Science" part of H2020 HPC strategy combining three elements: (a) Computer Science: towards exascale High Performance Computing; [HPC in FET] (b) providing access to the best supercomputing facilities and services for both industry and academia; [HPC in e-infrastructures] (c) achieving excellence in HPC applications; [HPC in e-infrastructures] complemented with training, education and skills development in HPC 10

(a) Exascale technology FET-Proactive: Towards Exascale High Performance Computing [FETHPC] The exascale computing frontier requires fundamental science and technology developments to ensure the transition to extreme parallelism and extreme data evolution of most of the key technological solutions that are satisfactory today will be insufficient to meet the exascale challenge Content: R&D covering the whole spectrum from processors and system architectures to high-level software and tools and novel applications (e.g. encompassing system software, file systems, programming environments and tools, algorithms, mathematics etc.) Ø engaging a European-wide effort to develop technology to build exascale systems within ~10 years FETHPC Call Topics: FET-Proactive Towards Exascale High Performance Computing Ø FETHPC 1 (research and innovation): HPC Core Technologies, Programming Environments and Algorithms for Extreme Parallelism and Extreme Data Applications Ø FETHPC 2 (coordination and support): HPC Ecosystem Development 11

FETHPC Call FETHPC 1: HPC core Technologies, Programming Environments and Algorithms for Extreme Parallelism and Extreme Data Applications Ø Proposals shall target one of the following subtopics: a) HPC core technologies and architectures b) Programming methodologies, environments, languages and tools c) APIs and system software for future extreme scale systems d) New mathematical and algorithmic approaches FETHPC Call FETHPC 1-a HPC core technologies and architectures q addressing one or more of the HPC core technologies (processors, memory, interconnect and storage) and their optimal integration into HPC systems, platforms and prototypes. q Proposals should have a co-design approach driven by ambitious applications and in close cooperation with the scientific disciplines and stakeholders concerned, aiming at radical overall system performance improvement while at the same time addressing issues such as: a holistic understanding of energy efficiency across the full HPC system architecture; I/O, storage and data-throughput capabilities especially for bigdata applications; radical scalability, concurrency, locality and resilience in the presence of millions of cores. 12

FETHPC Call FETHPC 1-b Programming methodologies, environments, languages and tools development of new programming models, domain-specific languages, programming paradigms, visualisation and data-analysis tools to facilitate the effective exploitation of the full system capabilities (including energy management) of the emerging large- and extreme scale systems, in particular for extreme parallelism and extreme data applications. 25 FETHPC Call FETHPC 1-c APIs and system software for future extreme scale systems: New APIs and the corresponding efficient, flexible and scalable exascale system software for managing extreme scale systems, taking into account extreme parallelism, extreme data, energy consumption and resilience. Proposals are expected to include communication and dissemination activities towards relevant standards bodies and research programmes. Critical mass to coordinate the API work in the exascale stack. 26 13

FETHPC Call FETHPC 1-d New mathematical and algorithmic approaches for existing or emerging applications on extreme scale systems. Energy-aware algorithms and maximum exploitation of projected characteristics of exascale-class systems. Specific issues are quantification of uncertainty and noise, multiscale and extreme data. Software engineering for extreme parallelism should be addressed. Open source development is privileged. 27 FETHPC Call FETHPC1: Expected impact Contribution to the realisation of the ETP4HPC Strategic Research Agenda, thus strengthened European research and industrial leadership in HPC technologies. Covering important segments of the broader and/or emerging HPC markets, especially extreme-scale HPC systems. Impact on standards bodies and other relevant international research programmes and frameworks. European excellence in mathematics and algorithms for extreme parallelism and extreme data applications to boost research and innovation in scientific areas such as physics, chemistry, biology, life sciences, materials, climate, geosciences, etc. 28 14

FETHPC Call Budget and type of projects in FETHPC1 Total budget for FETHPC1: 93.4 million EUR Type of projects: Research and Innovation Actions (100% funding). A minimum of 60% of the available budget will be allocated to research under part a) of the scope. The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 2 and 4 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Under part a) of the scope also larger proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of up to EUR 8 million can be envisaged. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. 29 FETHPC Call FETHPC 2: HPC Ecosystem Development Proposals shall address one of the two following topics: a) Coordination of the HPC strategy b) Excellence in High Performance Computing Systems 30 15

FETHPC Call FETHPC 2-a Coordination of the HPC strategy The aim is to support the implementation of a common European HPC strategy through coordination of the activities of stakeholders such as the European Technology Platform for HPC (ETP4HPC), PRACE, application owners and users (including emerging HPC applications), the European exascale computing research community, the open source HPC community, related activities in other parts of H2020, etc. Proposals must include activities for promoting a joint community structuring and synchronisation as well as other non-research activities such as the development of Strategic Research Agenda for High Performance Computing (including the roadmap for exascale in Europe), the link to the H2020 Societal Challenges, the mapping and analysis of related national and international R&I programmes/activities/research agendas in HPC towards exascale, coordination with and participation in relevant international activities, etc. Specific actions for attracting young talent into HPC must be included. 31 FETHPC Call FETHPC 2-b Excellence in High Performance Computing Systems boost European research excellence on the key challenges towards the next generations of high-performance computing systems cutting across all levels hardware, architectures, programming, applications ensure a durable integration of the relevant European research teams identify and promote best practices in curricula and training build and strengthen links to venture capital promote entrepreneurship and industry take-up. self-sustainability of the research integration on the longer-term 32 16

FETHPC Call FETHPC 2 Expected impact Strengthened European research and industrial leadership in the supply, operation and use of HPC systems; Contribution to the realisation of the ETP4HPC Strategic Research Agenda; Development of competitive European technology for building and exploiting a wide range of next-generation extreme performance computing systems; Structuring the efforts of stakeholders for implementing the European HPC strategy; Reinforced cooperation in international endeavours on HPC software and systems towards exascale; European Excellence in High Performance Computing systems. 33 FETHPC Call Budget and type of projects in FETHPC2 Total budget for FETHPC1: 4 million EUR Type of projects: Coordination and Support Actions (100% funding) Separate proposals per subtopic a) and b) 34 17

HPC in e-infrastructures 35 An integrated HPC approach in H2020 "Excellent Science" part of H2020 HPC strategy combining three elements: (a) Computer Science: towards exascale High Performance Computing; [HPC in FET] (b) providing access to the best supercomputing facilities and services for both industry and academia; [HPC in e-infrastructures] (c) achieving excellence in HPC applications; [HPC in e-infrastructures] complemented with training, education and skills development in HPC 18

e-infrastructures Call EINFRA-4-2014 1/4 Call e-infrastructures Topic 4 (EINFRA-4-2014): Pan-European HPC infrastructure and services Context respond to ever growing computational and simulation needs to stay at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs and to boost innovation capabilities of industry (including SMEs). Challenge Creating a world-class pan-european infrastructure, providing state-of-the-art services and access (both to industry and academia), independently of location Complementing the activities of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in HPC to implement the HPC strategy HPC resources in Europe need to be further pooled, integrated and rationalised e-infrastructures Call EINFRA-4-2014 2/4 Scope: 1. Provision of a seamless and efficient Tier-0 service (Tier-0 are services provided by machines devoted to the pan- European infrastructure for a significant fraction of cycles (to be agreed with the Commission) and having a minimum performance level) 2. Activities (e.g. training, service prototyping, software development etc.) building on national HPC capabilities (Tier-1) necessary to support Tier-0 3. Openness to users/new applications; promote industrial take-up of HPC services in particular by SMEs; 4. Governance/business model to ensure long term financial sustainability 19

e-infrastructures Call EINFRA-4-2014 3/4 5. Strategy for the deployment of a rich HPC environment of world-class systems with different machine architectures - towards exascale and ensuring a broad coverage of user needs 6. Synergies with the Centres of Excellence and ETP4HPC (the European Technology Platform for HPC); - providing users' specifications to guide research activities for future exascale prototypes and systems 7. Design and execute training and skills for HPC 8. International cooperation policy and associated activities The HPC infrastructure should provide core and basic services in coordination with other e-infrastructures to promote interoperability and a seamless user experience, and ensuring interworking with e.g. clouds and grids. e-infrastructures Call EINFRA-4-2014 4/4 Expected Impact: Improved services, procedures, and allocation schemes to ensure openness to new communities and applications Increased amount of computing cycles: Europe at the forefront of scientific breakthroughs and innovation Increased number of users accessing services including training in HPC: industrial organisations (in particular SMEs), EU projects and institutional users Increased investment in HPC infrastructure in Europe (national, regional and EU) Long term financial sustainability Better coordination between demand and supply in the European HPC ecosystem: improved collaboration of users, procurers, technology developers and suppliers 20

An integrated HPC approach in H2020 "Excellent Science" part of H2020 HPC strategy combining three elements: (a) Computer Science: towards exascale High Performance Computing; [HPC in FET] (b) providing access to the best supercomputing facilities and services for both industry and academia; [HPC in e-infrastructures] (c) achieving excellence in HPC applications; [HPC in e-infrastructures] complemented with training, education and skills development in HPC e-infrastructures Call EINFRA-5-2015 1/6 EINFRA-5-2015: Centres of Excellence (CoE) for computing applications Context: very few applications using HPC take advantage of current systems, maintained on "best effort" approach for specific communities (and often unclear license terms) new computational methods and algorithms must be developed, and (new) applications must be (re-) programmed in radically new ways Challenges: Ensuring EU competitiveness in HPC applications for addressing scientific, industrial or societal challenges. User-focused, developing a culture of scientific and industrial excellence, Placing computational science and harnessing of "big data" at the centre of scientific discovery and industrial competitiveness CoE 'thematic' on specific application domains, 'transversal' on computational science; 'challenge-driven' addressing societal or industrial challenges; or a combination 21

e-infrastructures Call EINFRA-5-2015 2/6 Scope: User-driven Communities in the driving seat Integrating the different components of computing and data e- infrastructures From hardware architectures to software applications Multidisciplinary domain expertise co-located alongside HPC system, software and algorithm expertise Distributed but with a possible central hub federating capabilities around Europe e-infrastructures Call EINFRA-5-2015 3/6 Proposals for CoEs will address: Provision of services developing/optimising/scaling HPC codes towards peta and exascale computing; testing, validating and maintaining codes and managing the associated data; quality assurance; co-design of hardware, software and codes; consultancy to industry and SMEs; research in HPC applications; addressing the skills gap in computational science Working in synergy with the pan-european HPC infrastructure, identifying suitable applications for co-design activities relevant to the development of HPC technologies towards exascale 22

e-infrastructures Call EINFRA-5-2015 4/6 Proposals for CoEs will address: Sustainability wide range of service models and funding, mixture of sources, including through sponsorship by industry or hybrid public-private models Clear business plans are expected Creating communities around specific codes, involving ISVs where appropriate, and exchange of best practices in particular for SMEs A governance structure driven by the needs of the users Commercial management expertise will be needed along with technical expertise to manage industry clients and supply chains e-infrastructures Call EINFRA-5-2015 5/6 Pan-European support including to European countries and regions with less HPC-resources 8-10 CoEs are expected to be funded - a follow up call will build on the results and lessons learnt from the present call International co-operation encouraged (clear mutual benefits and the partners have the relevant HPC capacity) Proposals requesting a EU contribution between EUR 4-5 million would allow this topic to be addressed appropriately. this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts 23

e-infrastructures Call EINFRA-5-2015 6/6 Expected Impact: Improved access to computing applications and expertise that enables researchers and industry to be more productive, leading to scientific excellence Improved competitiveness for companies and SMEs through access to CoE expertise and services European leadership in applications addressing societal challenges or are important for industrial applications through better code performance, maintenance and availability More scientists and engineers trained in the use of computational methods and optimisation of applications Overview of HPC related Calls 24

Overview of HPC related Calls 2014 EUR million 2015 EUR million Call Deadline FETHPC1-2014 HPC Core Technologies, Programming Environments and Algorithms for Extreme Parallelism and Extreme Data Applications 93,4 25/11/2014 at 17:00 Brussels time FETHPC 2-2014: HPC Ecosystem Development 4 25/11/2014 at 17:00 Brussels time EINFRA-4-2014 - Pan- European HPC infrastructure and services EINFRA-5-2015 - Centres of Excellence (CoE) for computing applications EINFRA-6-2014 - Network of HPC Competence Centres for SMEs 15 02/09/2014-17:00 Brussels time 40 14/01/2015 (tbc) 2 02/09/2014-17:00 Brussels time Thank you for your attention! All H2020 Calls and necessary documentation are published on the Participant Portal http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal HPC Call texts available in the FET and e-infrastructures Workprogrammes 9 April: HPC infoday Paris Email: Panagiotis.Tsarchopoulos@ec.europa.eu 25