European HPC Summit Week, May 9-12 2016, Prague

Prague, May 9th to 12th, 2016

ETP4HPC will participate in the European HPC Summit Week (9-12 May 2016, Prague)

ETP4HPC (the European Technology Platform for High-Performance Computing, www.etp4hpc.eu) would like to invite a representative of your project/organisation/team to take part in a workshop in order to define the process of implementing the Extreme-Scale Demonstrators projects. This event will take place 12th of May 2016 as part of the European HPC Summit Week event organised by EXDCI (European eXtreme Data and Computing Initiative, a project coordinating the European HPC Strategy).

The Extreme-Scale Demonstrators (EsDs) are HPC system prototypes built out of the technologies produced by the European HPC technology projects (and other technologies available in the market, if needed). Their objective is to verify the preparedness of the technologies available for the delivery of complete and competitive European HPC systems. The current Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) of ETP4HPC (available at: http://www.etp4hpc.eu/sra/ – its Chapter 8 defines the basic principles of the EsDs).

This workshop is organised by the EXDCI project. As its objective, the ETP4HPC team would like to involve all European HPC Eco-system stakeholders, i.e. the developers and providers of HPC technology (including potential system integrators of the EsDs), application communities, infrastructure providers and representative of the Commission in a discussion on the following topics in relation to the EsDs:
• The main technical EsD characteristics and performance targets
• Defining a suite of challenging pre-exascale problems to validate the EsDs instances, together with examples of possible applications
• The options for funding and project implementation (including a detailed timetable)
• Identifying potential parties interested in participating to the EsD calls
The aim of this workshop is to provide key input for the preparation of the EsD Calls for Proposals that the ETP4HPC will suggest in Work Programme 2018/19. It will also be an opportunity for the stakeholders to network and interact.

We believe that project partners and organisations we are approaching constitute an adequate representation of the European HPC Eco-system. This workshop is intended to be open so if you feel that you can contribute please contact the ETP4HPC office at: office@etp4hpc.eu