European high performance computing

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European high-performance computing ( English High Performance Computing , abbreviation : HPC ) should, within the framework of the digital single market of the European Union (EU), ensure that the European Union can keep up with the world's best in this area as well, maintain a leading position in European research and own capacities in Europe are created and maintained. High-performance computing should also offer great potential for creating jobs with a view to the digital single market.

history

Until a few years ago, the EU member states made high-performance computing possible with national or regional research and innovation strategies and with national public contracts. Subsequently, access to national resources and services for high-performance computing and data management was coordinated at European level (e.g. the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) initiative or the GEANT program). Regulation (EU) 1316/2013 created the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), which enabled projects of common interest to be prepared and implemented within the framework of the policy for the trans-European networks in the fields of transport, telecommunications and energy.

2014 has the private association European Technology Platform for High-Performance Computing ( dt. : European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing , abbr. : ETP4HPC) a contractual public-private partnership (PPP) with the European Union to regain the high performance computing a position of leadership and to develop a comprehensive HPC ecosystem for the Union and the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) has entered into a contractual PPP with the European Union to strengthen the data value chain, promote community building in the data sector and create the conditions for a thriving data-driven economy in of the Union.

In March 2017, the European Commission published the EuroHPC declaration to purchase, build and use an integrated infrastructure for high-performance computing, which will be one of the three most powerful systems in the world. The resulting agreement was signed by 22 European countries.

In January 2018, the European Commission proposed to invest EUR 1 billion together with the EU member states in world-class European supercomputers and to create a joint company (EuroHPC - European High Performance Computing ).

On October 8, 2018, the Regulation (EU) 2018/1488 required for implementation was published in the Official Journal of the European Union .

basis

European high-performance computing is needed to process the ever-increasing amounts of data that z. B. in the field of

The company EuroHPC for European high-performance computing, founded with Regulation (EU) 2018/1488, is also intended to ensure more independence for the EU in the data economy, since the EU industry currently uses more than 33 percent of the global computing power of supercomputers, but only 5 percent of which offers.

activities

The activities for European high-performance computing will initially focus on two areas:

  • a Europe-wide high-performance computing infrastructure
    • Acquisition and installation of two supercomputers in the EU, which are among the top five in the world, as well
    • of at least two other supercomputers that are now among the 25 best in the world.
    • Networking of these systems with existing national high-performance computers
    • Making this network available to public and private users across Europe so that it can be used in more than 800 scientific and industrial fields of application.
  • as well as research and innovation through:
    • Promoting the development of a European ecosystem for high performance computing,
    • Promotion of a technology supply industry and provision of high-performance computing capacities for a large number of public and private users in many application areas, including for small and medium-sized enterprises .

Another area will be to enable European leadership in scientific and industrial applications.

Joint Undertaking EuroHPC

The Joint Undertaking EuroHPC ( Euro pean H igh P erformance C omputing) has full legal personality and is based in Luxembourg and will be active until the end of 2026 for the time being.

Participating Union Member States

In addition to the European Union, the EEA states : Belgium , Bulgaria , Denmark , Germany , Estonia , Finland , France , Greece , Ireland , Italy , Croatia , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , the Netherlands will be involved in creating the system for European high-performance computing , Norway , Austria , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , the Czech Republic and Hungary participate. The Joint Undertaking is to be open to other public and private members.

Legal basis

With Regulation (EU) 2018/1488 of September 28, 2018, the European Union bundles resources from 25 European countries to build a world-class European high-performance computing infrastructure.

The Joint Undertaking was established within the meaning of Article 187 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

costs

In advance, one billion euros is to be invested by the European Commission and the EU member states in the first European supercomputer. Additional funds of over 400 million euros are to come from private partners as part of a public-private partnership . Of this one billion, the European Union will contribute 486 million euros.

In the longer term, the European Commission proposes, as part of the Digital Europe 2021–2027 program presented in May 2018 to strengthen high-performance computing and data processing in Europe within the framework of the multiannual financial framework (MFF) for the period 2012–2027, around EUR 2.7 billion invest in the joint venture.

On June 7, 2019, the EU Commission issued a press release on the implementation of the program. Accordingly, the 8 locations for three forerunner systems with more than 150 petaflops, as well as for five exascale units and five petascale machines with four petaflop computing power are fixed. Commissioning is scheduled for 2020.

Locations and facilities

Map of the EuroHPC high-performance data centers

According to the European Commission , the first eight European supercomputers will be located in the following cities:

Details

  • Barcelona: MareNostrum operated by the Barcelona Supercomputer Center BSC. Commissioning planned for December 31, 2020.
  • Kajaani: Center for Science (CSC). Planned computing capacity 11 PetaFLOPS in the first expansion stage, planned commissioning in 2020. In a further expansion stage, more than 150 PFLOPS should then be achieved in the Linpack.
  • University of Maribor in partnership with the Institute of Information Science (IZUM), the location should be at the Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto (FIŠ). A prototype computer with 220 teraFLOPS is to be installed there for research and development. The computing capacity should then reach more than 1 PetaFLOPS from around 2020. The prototype with 220 TFLOP / s is said to have 76 nodes with a total of 4,256 cores. Each node with 2x AMD EPYC 32C / 64T 7501 2.0G 64M (a total of 64 cores with 2.0 GHz), 512 GB, 2x 960 GB SSD, 6 nodes with GPU with a total of 72 + 122,880 cores: Processor 2x Intel Gold SKL-SP 6128 (total 12 cores @ 3.4 GHz), 256 GB RAM, 2x 480 GB SSD, 4x NVIDIA TESLA V100 32G PCI-E x16 (each with 5,120 cores) 3 general servers with 2x AMD Epyc16C / 32T 7301 2.2G 64M (total 32 Cores @ 2.2 GHz), 256 GB, 2x480 GB SSD and three SSD storage servers, each with 24 x2 TB, SATA3, a total of 140 TB storage. The ultimate supercomputer is expected to achieve 1-2 PetaFLOPS with about 600 nodes with about 40,000 cores and 30 nodes with GPUs with 360 + 614,400 cores, plus 1 PB of fast storage (SSD) and 20-25 PB of permanent storage.

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g High-Performance Computing and the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking , factsheet of the European Commission of 28 September 2018.
  2. ↑ a b See Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1488.
  3. ↑ Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe ( PACE or PRACE) is a European initiative to bundle the computing power of high-performance computers in 25 European countries.
  4. ↑ High-speed connections for the pan-European data network for research and education, in which 38 national partners of the research and education network are united, who want to create a Europe-wide network for scientific excellence, research, education and innovation.
  5. ↑ Regulation (EU) 1316/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the creation of the "Connecting Europe" facility, on the amendment of Regulation (EU) No. 913/2010 and on the repeal of Regulation (EC) No. 680/2007 and (EC) No. 67/2010, OJ. L 348 of December 20, 2013, p. 129.
  6. ↑ See Recital 15 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1488.
  7. ↑ See Recital 16 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1488.
  8. ↑ EuroHPC - European High Performance Computing .
  9. ↑ Joint statement by Vice-President Ansip and Commissioner Gabriel on the progress to build European supercomputers , website of the European Commission of June 25, 2018, accessed on December 28, 2018.
  10. ↑ a b c d e EU invests 1 billion euros in European supercomputers , website of the European Commission, September 28, 2018, accessed on December 28, 2018.
  11. ↑ See Article 1 Paragraph 1, 4 and 5 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1488.
  12. ↑ See Recital 13 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1488.
  13. ↑ Regulation (EU) 2018/1488 of the Council of 28 September 2018 establishing the Joint Undertaking for European High Performance Computing, OJ L 2018/252, 1.
  14. ↑ See Article 1 Paragraph 1 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1488.
  15. ↑ See Article 1 Paragraph 3 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1488.
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  17. ↑ For breakdown see Articles 4 to 6 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1488.
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