HPC Europe

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The support program HPC-Europa is one of the European Union funded (EU) research initiative in the area of high-performance computing ( English high-performance computing , HPC ). It is intended to promote the development of the European Research Area and, in particular, to help improve European researchers' access to the European supercomputing infrastructure provided by the partners of the program. The program is currently in its third edition "HPC-Europa3", sometimes abbreviated to "HPCE3".

history

HPC-Europe1

The first HPC Europe program (HPC Europe1), which was carried out between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2007 as part of the EU's 6th Research Framework Program (FP6), aimed to provide transnational access to high-performance computing To improve infrastructures for European researchers by funding mutual visits, facilitate access to resources of grid computer systems and develop new methods of measuring the performance of research programs run on supercomputers.

The program had a budget of 14.2 million euros, of which around 13 million euros came from the EU budget . The first financing tranche of 1.6 million euros (of which 1.5 million from the EU budget) was made available between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008.

HPC-Europe2

The second edition of the HPC Europe program (HPC Europe2) ran from January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2012 as part of the 7th Research Framework Program (FP7). In addition to the task of improving access to the European supercomputing infrastructure, the aim of the program was to promote the development of programming models for HPC on mass parallel computer architectures, to support guest researchers in the development and parallelization of their applications, and to develop data grid Facilitate tools for scientific data services.

For the first time, "virtual visits" were offered as part of the HPC Europe program, during which the researchers had remote access to the HPC facilities from their institutes. According to the final report of the program, however, this offer was only used to a limited extent, possibly because it did not meet the researchers' expectations of the HPC Europe program.

The budget for HPC-Europe2 was 13 million euros, of which 9.5 million euros came from the EU budget.

HPC-Europe3

The current HPC Europe program (HPC Europe3) is financed entirely from the Horizon 2020 program, the official successor to the EU's research framework programs . The budget is 9.2 million euros.

In continuation of its original goal of funding visits by researchers to the supercomputing facilities of the program partners, HPC-Europa3 has now also included the Baltic States and the Western Balkans as new regions in the program. In addition, the objective of the program was expanded to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to use supercomputing infrastructures.

The program also places great value on external collaboration with other European HPC projects, such as B. PRACE and ETP4HPC.

The following 10 partners are involved in HPC-Europa3:

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  1. ↑ a b Project information HPC-EUROPA Community information service for research and development (CORDIS). Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  2. ↑ Project information HPC-EUROPA ++ Community information service for research and development (CORDIS). Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c Project information HPC-EUROPA2 Community information service for research and development (CORDIS). Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b c Project information HPC-EUROPA3 Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS). Retrieved April 1, 2020.