European Commission Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology

EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, CONTENT AND TECHNOLOGY Digital Excellence & Science Infrastructure High Performance Computing & Quantum Technology SESSION 5: HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, BIG DATA AND SUPER CONNECTIVITY INPUT PAPER European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Summit 12 June 2017 | Charlemagne Building | Brussels GIVES the background and context of the EuroHPC Strategy for building an EU-wide Exascale Supercomputing and Data Infrastructure and Ecosystem in Europe: [Context]: Europe's scientific capabilities and industrial competitiveness critically depend on access to world-leading High Performance Computing (HPC) and data infrastructures. Currently however, none of the ten leading supercomputers in the world is in the EU and the ones available in Europe are built largely using technologies developed outside Europe. Europe cannot take the risk of getting technologically deprived of strategic know-how for research, innovation & competitiveness and that data produced by EU research and industry will be processed elsewhere because of the lack of HPC capabilities in Europe; [Background]: In April 2016, as part of its Digitising European Industry strategy, the Commission announced the European Cloud Initiative.1 It aims to create by 2022/2023 a world- class European HPC and Big Data ecosystem that will underpin the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). On 23 March 2017, a group of seven Member States signed the EuroHPC declaration to work together and with the Commission for acquiring and deploying, by 2022/2023, an integrated pan-European exascale supercomputing infrastructure that will be available across the EU for scientific communities, industry and the public sector. On 10 May 2017, the Commission adopted the Mid-term Review of the Digital Single Market Strategy2, where it announced its plan to propose, by end of 2017, a legal instrument that provides a procurement framework for an integrated exascale supercomputing and data infrastructure; [Targets]: The targets are: the development of European HPC exascale technologies and procurement, in 2020, of two pre-exascale HPC machines and in 2022-2023 of two full exascale HPC machines, which would rank in the first 3 places of the world; the interconnection and federation of national and European HPC resources and the creation of an HPC and Big Data service infrastructure facility; large scale demonstrations and test-beds in areas spanning from scientific applications to health, space or industrial design and simulation; and, the development of European post-exascale technologies and procurement of European post-exascale machines in 2026-28; [Implementation]: The Member States signatories of the EuroHPC declaration and the Commission are working together to define, by end 2017, a detailed implementation roadmap for developing, acquiring and deploying the integrated exascale supercomputing infrastructure. It will 1 COM(2016) 178 2 COM(2017) 155 be co-designed by a wide range of users and suppliers and would be available across the EU for scientific communities, public and private partners. The Commission has already foreseen large support for the development of such infrastructure through the H2020 WP 2018-2020 and the Connecting Europe Facility. It will also be working on the definition, by end of 2017, of an appropriate legal and financial instrument and a procurement framework for implementing the EuroHPC objectives; [Governance]: Representatives of all the relevant stakeholders will be involved in the governance structure of EuroHPC and in the preparation of the EuroHPC implementation roadmap. The governance will foster transparency and clear decision processes for implementing the EuroHPC objectives. The terms of reference of all the groups participating in the governance structure will be drafted and the whole governance be put in place before end 2017; .

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