In these challenging times, High-performance computing is an essential tool! New technologies and applications help to understand and tackle the challenges we are facing such as the COVID pandemic and climate change. The Eurolab4HPC updated vision document takes a long-term look at the whole high-performance computing stack, how HPC can continue deliver greater computer performance in innovative applications, software and hardware and down to the enabling technologies.

Eurolab4HPC aimed to boost innovation in HPC. One of the means to do this is to fund technology transfer projects such as Fast Virtual GNSS SoC. This project received €45000 to work on a fast virtual SoC for advanced GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) algorithm evaluation.

One of the main goals of Eurolab4HPC is to promote entrepreneurship by building an innovation pipeline from general purpose entrepreneurial training, business prototyping, business plan development and helping with funding. During these last 2 project years, Eurolab4HPC has supported 9 business prototyping projects (BPP) for a total of €135 000.

Eurolab4HPC granted €5000 to 17 projects to foster tight integration among research teams from multiple communities working across all levels: hardware, architectures, programming and applications, in alignment with the goals of the Eurolab4HPC Vision.

While Eurolab4HPC is running its final weeks, we are happy to see the projects that were supported by Eurolab4HPC are thriving. We are happy to give you an update!

The PASIM project was a Eurolab4HPC funded Business Prototyping Project by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). An HPC business prototyping project describes the value proposition, customers, partners and business models using the business model canvas. PASIMs first milestone was to provide a regulatory numerical test to augment the data provided during pre-market approval, therefore reducing time-to-market of novel Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs).

For the second time, the Technology Training Course was held at the University of Stuttgart on March 5 and 6, 2020 as part of the EU-programme "Eurolab4HPC". HRLS was in charge of the organization of the event.

Camila Pontes received a Eurolab4HPC Short Term Collaboration Grant to stay 3 months (from January to March) in Alfonso Valencia's lab at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Due to the Corona virus, she had to go back home. It triggered her to adapt her research project to a coronavirus-related research project, since she got a grant, called Excalate4CoV, to work on this topic. Now she is involved in a coronavirus project, doing sequence and structural analysis of viral proteins of SARS-CoV-2.

Presenting one of Eurolabs Business Prototyping projects: ATOMSIM which resulted in a company called Nextmol, a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputer Center.

The Eurolab4HPC Thematic Session on Programming models for upcoming supercomputers during HiPEAC’s Computer Science Week on Oct 28, 2019 in Bilbao, tackling big challenges in hardware, software and HPC applications.

A 2-day idea-to-business training in Gothenburg on 7-8 October 2019, helped researchers in HPC take a step towards starting a business.

The technology transfer project Hi-Tech SoluTions fOr Waste mAnaGement systEms by Luca Catarinucci, Riccardo Colella, Luigi Patrono and Ilaria Sergi, Department of Innovation Engineering, University of Salento, and Alfredo Salvatore , Sensor-ID, Italy, reported on its final results in July.

For the second and last time the EUROLAB4HPC summerschool was organized during the ACACES summerschool in Fiuggi. A unique opportunity for 47 young researchers to learn from and get inspired by renown experts in HPC.

The Eurolab4HPC project’s BoF session titled “What are the greatest challenges to be addressed by Academic HPC Systems Research?” was an inspiring session with academic researchers and different stakeholders discussing and contributing to Eurolab4HPC’s vision for academic research in high performance computing.

During the The Week of Open Source Hardware (WOSH) the winners of the Open Source competition were announced. Congratulations to the Nyuzi project, OptimSoc and FuseSoC ! The open source hardware competition is an excellent example of promoting creativity. Three out of five projects received direct support from Eurolab4HPC for excellence in design.

The Week of Open Source Hardware (WOSH) took place in Zurich, Switzerland. The FOSSi Foundation and the Pulp team, with the support of H2020 projects Eurolab4HPC and OPRECOMP organized a complementary program covering topics around free and open source silicon, its licensing and open source EDA tools. The WOSH event was a major success, bringing more than 300 people from the industry and academia together.

Meet ATOMSIM, a project that got funding from the Eurolab4HPC Business Prototyping Project call in 2018. This BPP call focused on the evaluation and generation of sustainable business opportunities for new, possibly disruptive, actors in Europe’s HPC markets.

The European HPC Summit Week 2019 in Poznan, Poland gathered main HPC stakeholders in Europe. Eurolab4HPC organized half-day workshop with EXDCI.

The workshop on Embedded Multicore Programming - Industrial state-of-the-art and future directions was organized during the HiPEAC Spring CSW in Edinburgh. This event, organized by the Eurolab4HPC project in cooperation with HiPEAC and TETRAMAX, focused on architectural enhancements, novel programming models and tools to allow programmers to efficiently utilize future multi-core processors.

The Smart funding for digitization of Europe's industry session at the DATE´19 conference gave an important glimpse into initiatives to fuel uptake of new technologies in industry.

Eurolab4HPC is offering grants for the Eurolab4HPC- course track in the ACACES 2019 summerschool.

In this news series, we will focus on the different projects from the Business Prototyping Project 2018 call aimed to help research groups in HPC who have a research idea at a reasonable technology readiness level and who want to evaluate its commercial potential. In this article we're presenting: USER, Urgent Simulation of Earthquakes for Resilience.

During the HiPEAC Conference in Valencia, the Eurolab4HPC roadmap was presented by Theo Ungerer from University of Augsburg.

Eurolab4HPC organized a RISC-V tutorial at the HiPEAC conference in Valencia. To this end, the Parallel Ultra Low Power (PULP) platform was introduced to a fully booked conference room.

For the first time Eurolab4HPC co-organized the Industry days/ Multicore day 2018 in with Chalmers University of Technology, Uppsala University and RISE SICS.

Regardless if you are or a computer software or hardware designer, the ultimate goal is to squeeze out all of the performance of computers in an energy efficient manner. ChalmersX soon launches an advanced course (Computer System Design: Advanced Concepts of Modern Microprocessors) starting November 15.

Today and in future, high-performance computers will be ubiquitous in autonomous vehicles using machine learning, in data centers fueling telecom, and in IoT infrastructures to analyze huge volumes of data. The challenge is to design software and hardware for them to meet demanding power and energy constraints. Being able to develop and exploit such systems and bring them to the market will be the key for the success of future use of computing.

Start-up Mitiga Solutions by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) aims to commercialize a technology that is able to evaluate the impacts of volcanic eruptions in the aviation sector. It deals with a software which allows airlines to know the risks that these natural disasters may cause to the activity of their flights. Mitiga was awarded an Eurolab4HPC Business Prototyping Project in 2017.

Regardless if you are a computer software or hardware designer, if you want to know how to get maximum computer performance in an energy efficient manner, don't miss these new online courses!

The first Eurolab4HPC School was organized from 8 until 14 July 2018 in Fiuggi, Italy. The Summer School was co-located with the ACACES summer school organised by the HiPEAC project.

Sunday, 24 June 2018, Eurolab attended the workshop:" Post-H2020 Vision for HPC” organized by ETP4HPC and HiPEAC in the build up to the ISC18 event. On Monday, visitors of the ISC HPC event had the chance to talk to Eurolab4HPC representative Paul Carpenter at the HiPEAC booth.

Are you interested in funding opportunities in HPC research? Starting from 1 July, 2018 Eurolab4HPC opens 3 different kinds of calls! Deadline: 30 September 2018.

Eurolab4HPC will be participating in the exhibition at ISC HPC – visit the HiPEAC booth A-1411 on Monday 25th of June from 3 to 8 PM, to chat to us about the project.

The European HPC Summit Week 2018 in Ljubljana gathered main HPC stakeholders in Europe. On Thursday, May 31 there was a dedicated Eurolab4HPC session.

Eurolab4HPC is a two-year Horizon 2020 funded project with the bold commitment to make Europe excel in academic research and innovation in HPC technology. This project was preceded by Eurolab4HPC1 that started off from fragmented research initiatives for HPC systems.

EUROLAB4HPC organized a Thematic Session on RISC-V in the spring edition of HiPEAC Computing System Week in Göteborg, Sweden on May 22, 2018. The aim of the session was to help creating EUROLAB4HPC and HiPEAC based activities and working groups that will research, innovate and create open source hardware (and tools) based on RISCV. It featured a tutorial on RISC-V offered by Luca Benini, ETH. This was followed by three enlightening invited talks on security aspects by Carles Hernandez from Barcelona Supercomputing Center, on LLVM technology by Alex Bradbury from Cambridge University and on RISC-V memory models by Per Stenström, Chalmers. This was followed by an interesting panel discussion with the theme of how to align and work together to form a strong RISC-V community in Europe led by Avi Mendelson, Technion.

The workshop introduces researchers to opportunities and challenges of building a venture based on research ideas.

On May 22nd, 2018, we officially kicked-off the second Eurolab4HPC project at Chalmers University, Gothenburg and home of coordinator Per Stenström.

The Eurolab4HPC Project is organising a HPC track in the ACACES 2018 Summer School from 8 to 14 July 2018 in Fiuggi.

Radical changes in computing are foreseen for the next decade.

Eurolab4HPC has developed and validated an HPC curriculum to address the educational needs of future HPC system technology stake holders that complements existing curricula provided by professional organizations such as the ACM, BCS and IEEE.

Just after the official end date of the project, Eurolab4HPC organised a half day workshop with HiPEAC and EXCDI summarizing the main achievements of the projects to an international audience.

You can download the slides of the DTHPC Workshop organized by Eurolab4HPC during the HiPEAC 2017 Conference (Stockholm).

Learn about advanced computer design concepts, including how to make modern multicore-based computers both fast and energy efficient.

The purpose of the Business Prototyping Projects is to help research groups in HPC identify and evaluate business cases based on their research results.

[Tuesday 10 May, 14:00 to 18:30] Co-located with the European HPC Summit Week 2016, Prague, Czech Republic, this workshop is addressed to the HPC community of Europe, presenting the state-of-the-art in European Computing Systems and Architectures, and discussing how to apply these to HPC.

The purpose of the Business Prototyping Projects is to help researchers identify and evaluate business cases based on their research results.

Eurolab4HPC is pleased to announce the first call for proposals for Cross-Site Collaboration Grants to initiate and promote Cross-site Actions.

The Coordinator of Eurolab4HPC, Professor Per Stenstrom, makes a presentation in the EXDCI-ETP4HPC event in Rome.

Eurolab4HPC organized a session just before the start of the FP7 HiPEAC Computing Systems Week in Milano.

Eurolab4HPC kicked off in the University Foundation in Brussels. All partners were represented and the actions over the first three months were identified.