European HPC Ecosystem Summit

Authors: Oriol Pineda (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)), Florian Berberich (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), Juelich Supercomputing Centre)

Abstract: PRACE engaged in 2018 in the coordination of European HPC services and activities through a series of events and workshops. This includes access to HPC systems, HPC user support, training in HPC, HPC policy, HPC technology development, HPC operations and dissemination. The objective of this BoF is to present the final outcome of this initiative and engage stakeholders to participate in the new "HPC in Europe" services portal launched in September 2020. This portal has been designed to structure the European HPC services and documentation and present them in a user-driven and audience-oriented manner.

Long Description: Answering the policies of the European Comission ('High Performance Computing: Europe's place in a Global Race', followed by 'European Cloud Initiative - Building a competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe'), the European HPC stakeholders have recently engaged in the coordination of their HPC services and activities, with the objective to set the role and responsibilities of each major European HPC actor with regards to Access to HPC systems, HPC user support, Training in HPC, HPC policy, HPC technology development, HPC operations and dissemination. To this end, a working group led by PRACE distributed a self-evaluation survey to more than 80 institutions, in order to identify their services and competences in HPC. The first analysis of the results was presented and discussed during the EuroHPC Summit Week 2019 in Poznan. This has been followed up in a BoF session in SC19 where the first complete structure of European HPC services was presented and discussed, and then in a workshop during the EuroHPC Summit Week in March 2020 (moved to online interactive webinar due to covid-19 regulations).

In this BoF, the new HPC in Europe services portal will be presented, where the final conclusions of this working group have been used to structure the European HPC services and documentation. PRACE will organize this BoF and invite the relevant stakeholders to contribute.

The ultimate goal of this BoF session will be to analyse colectively the conclusions of the working group, as reflected in the structure of the "HPC in Europe" portal, launched in September 2020. The new HPC in Europe portal provides a framework to collect the complete catalogue of HPC services throughout Europe, following a user-driven and audience-oriented approach. Several stakeholders have already contributed with services to be included in the portal. The BoF will be key to further engage the HPC community to participate in this portal.

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