At the end of the PRACE-5IP project, 28 months after its start in January 2017, the project has achieved all milestones and completed its objectives:
- WP1: Management of the Contract: The management and governance structure of the project worked well. One Contract Amendment was prepared by PMO. The first and second Project Reviews were held in June 2018 and 2019.
- WP2: Sustainability and development of the RI: Provided support concerning the development of the new phase of PRACE, the management and processes of PRACE aisbl, the relations with stakeholders and other communities being further developed, and support to the DECI management process. An analysis of PRACE data protection and of PRACE compliance with the Trans-National Access was undertaken.
- WP3: Communication, Dissemination, Outreach and Events: The PRACE website has been improved, maintained and updated with PRACE-5IP information. PRACE social media accounts were kept up to date with PRACE news and information. PRACEdays17, PRACEdays18 were held and preparations of PRACEdays2019 were undertaken. PRACE was present at ISC17 and 18, SC17 and 18, DI4R and several Science Fairs around Europe.
- WP4: Training: WP4 focused on the organisational aspects of four main activities: the Seasonal Schools, the on-demand training events, the International HPC Summer Schools, the Summer of HPC 2017 and 2018, and preparations of Summer of HPC 2019. The PTC network was extended with four PTCs starting their activity by the end of 2017. The online training is broadened with the development of five MOOCs. WP4 also focused on the re-organisation of the training code to be provided in the CodeVault.
- WP5: HPC Commissioning and Prototyping: WP5 set up its working structure and started the work on its main tasks: Procurement Independent Vendor Relations and Market Watch , Best Practices for Energy-Efficient HPC Centre Infrastructures Design and Operations, and Best Practices for Prototype Planning and Evaluation. The 8th and 9th European Workshops on HPC Centre Infrastructures were organised by CSCS and CINECA respectively, and preparations for the 10th edition were finalised.
- WP6: Operational Services for the HPC Ecosystem: The integration of four Tier-0 systems and further seven Tier-1 systems was established. An analysis of the new operational services was performed. The coordination of activities of the PRACE Security Forum was continued. Further collaborations with other e-Infrastructures and CoEs on data management and training were undertaken.
- WP7: Application Enabling and Support: WP7 supported a total of 34 projects, developed two numerical libraries, and wrote six Best Practice Guides and 29 White Papers. D7.5 “Evaluation of Accelerated and Non-accelerated Benchmarks” reports on the performance and scaling of the Benchmarks on the PRACE Tier-0 systems, two PRACE-3IP PCP prototype systems, the Mont-Blanc 3 prototype system Dibona and the DEEP-ER prototype system SDV.
