Across all WPs, all planned project activities were executed to reach the goals of EXDCI-2. The main actions undertaken are the following:
1. The EuroHPC Summit Week 2019 was held from 13 to 17 May 2019 in Poznań, Poland. The event gathered the main European HPC stakeholders from technology suppliers and HPC infrastructures to scientific and industrial HPC users in Europe.
2. Organisation of:
• The first EXDCI-2 Technical Workshop on 22 September 2018 in Brussels. This provided a good opportunity to have productive discussions in between all WP leaders to share their work plans for the remaining 2 years of the project.
• The PRACE-CoEs-FET HPC-EXDCI Workshop co-organised by PRACE-5IP and EXDCI-2 on 30 and 31 October 2018 in Germany
• The “Collaboration through Communication” workshop on 1 October 2019 in Brussels. This meeting was jointly organised with the PRACE 6IP project.
• The “Workshop on New technological paths for high performance chips targeting HPC and edge” on 5 and 6 November in Brussels.
• The “Virtual Workshop on AI and HPC Convergence” on 26 November 2020.
• The second EXDCI-2 Technical Workshop on 2 and 3 December 2019 in Barcelona aimed to assess the progress made since the beginning of EXDCI-2 and to build on this by constructing a new vision that will help the EU HPC ecosystem progress beyond the existing challenges.
• The BDEC conference series
- From 14 to 16 May 2019 in Poznań, Poland, co-located with EHPCSW 2019.
- Participation in the meetings in the US (03/2018 and 11/2018), in Japan (02/2019).
- From 23 to 26 March 2020 in Porto, Portugal: the live event was cancelled due to the pandemic, and turned into four online meetings from June to November 2020.
3. Participation in:
• The Teratec Forum on 11 and 12 June 2019 in Palaiseau, France.
• International Supercomputing 2019 (ISC 2019) from 16 to 20 June 2019, Germany. EXDCI was presented at the PRACE booth.
• The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC19) from 18 to 21 November 2019 in Denver, Colorado, United States, with a shared booth with PRACE and participation in Birds-of-a-Feather sessions.
• The fourth ORAP Forum on 29 November 2019 in Paris, France.
• The Teratec Digital Forum from 13 to 14 October 2020, virtually.
• International Conference, SC20 from 9 to 19 November 2020 virtually. EXDCI-2 was presented at the virtual PRACE booth.
• The BDEC conference series from 15 to 17 October 2020 in San Diego, United States.
6. Interaction with communities on “upstream technologies”, such as for example the photonics community
7. Analysis of R&I outcome of the FETHPC projects launched in 2016 and 2017
8. Completion of the fourth Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) issued in March 2020.
9. Promotion of horizontal collaboration between major European players in the digital continuum.
10. Document presented to the EuroHPC Governing Board on the impact of the European HPC programme on the HPC value chain.
11. Issue of three White Papers (“European HPC technology research projects”, “Future HPC technologies”, “The future of computing: Will it be Quantum Computing?”)
12. Implementation and promotion of the spin-off project.
