Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 & H2020 Projects

• EXDCI-2: EXDCI-2 is a H2020 project (type: CSA – Coordination & support action), coordinated by PRACE for a duration of 30 months, starting on March 2018.

  Through the joint action of PRACE and ETP4HPC, EXDCI-2 mobilises the European HPC stakeholders. The project participates in the support of the European HPC Ecosystem with two main goals:

  • Development and advocacy of a competitive European HPC Exascale Strategy by supporting the implementation of a common European HPC strategy, open to synergistic areas including High Performance Data Analytics (HPDA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The expertise of the partners and stakeholders will permit to elaborate a transversal prospective vision.

  • Coordination of the stakeholder community for European HPC at the Exascale through joint community structuring and synchronisation. This entails ensuring EXDCI-2 stakeholder representation in the main development of the European HPC eco-system towards Exascale, such as: The development of relationships with other ecosystems including upstream technologies as photonics and electronics, High Performance Embedded Computing (HiPEAC) and Big Data (BDVA) In the context of the upcoming European Data Infrastructure (EDI) a road mapping activity toward future converged HPC, HPDA and AI needs and new services from PRACE users communities and CoE The continuation of BDEC activities, for international participation of European stakeholders on the integration from edge computing to HPC, including Data Analytics and AI The mapping and analysis of related national and international R&I research agendas EXDCI-2 gives particular attention to creating synergies with the CoEs – for example with the CSA FocusCoE – and to building on the outcomes of FET HPC projects.

  Olivier Beaumont is involved the task that will work on building a consensus based transversal vision and aims at proposing Ecosystem level concepts. Recommendations implementing the vision will be proposed. The work will benefit from the CoE connection established in the first EXDCI CSA. It is on purpose implemented on the first year of the CSA in order to allow it to be taken into account in the other WP.