IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center will be from Monday 20 March to Thursday 23 March at the EuroHPC Summit which will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden, and attended by more than 500 HPC, QC and AI professionals. The theme of this year's Summit is “European Supercomputing Excellence in the Exascale Era”.
EuroHPC Summit is an annual event gathering representatives of the European HPC community – HPC providers, scientific and industrial users, and policy makers. This year the Summit will be among others attended by Gustav Kalbe, Director of DG CNECT, Thomas Skordas, Deputy Director General of DG CNECT, and Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director of the EuroHPC JU.
IT4Innovations will be there too. Our colleagues will present our latest achievements and projects, in which IT4Innovations is involved. They will participate in panel discussions, poster sessions, discuss and reflect on challenges in HP,C and also offer, for example, a virtual tour of our data room. Participation in the Summit gives IT4Innovations, among other things, the opportunity to strengthen relationships within the European HPC community and to build new connections.
Summit programme and active participation of IT4Innovations
Four days of the Summit will be filled with presentations, panel discussions, research poster sessions, and more. Each day is devoted to a different topic. Monday 20 March is dedicated to the Opening Plenary. The representatives of EuroHPC JU and the European Commission will, e.g., discuss the future of quantum computing in Europe, strengthening European digital sovereignty, and the future of exascale supercomputing. On 20 March, two of our colleagues will present projects in a poster session starting at 6 pm.
Lubomír Říha, the Head of the Infrastructure Research Lab, will present the EUPEX project, which aims to develop a prototype European exascale supercomputing platform including a software stack and selected HPC applications.
Radek Halfar will present the BioDT project, which aims to push the current boundaries of a predictive understanding of biodiversity dynamics by developing a Digital Twin providing advanced modelling, simulation, and prediction capabilities.
Tuesday 21 March, will be the EuroHPC User Opportunities Day. On this day, from 9 am to 1 pm, you can visit the EuroHPC Demo Lab, where EUMaster4HPC programme students will offer visitors live showcases of the operational EuroHPC system Karolina, acquired with the support of the EuroHPC JU, and installed at IT4Innovations in 2021. The LEXIS platform will be presented within the Lab, and you can virtually visit the IT4Innovations data room.
Our colleague Tomáš Karásek, the Head of the Parallel Algorithms Lab and the National Competence Center Czech Republic coordinator, will present within the session Paving the Path for Digital Twins in HPC starting at 4:30 pm on 21 March.
On Wednesday 22 March, it will be time for EuroHPC JU Scientific Challenges Day and debating about readiness for the exascale era and energy efficiency in HPC.
Branislav Jansík, the Supercomputing Services Director at IT4Innovations, will participate in the panel discussion on Scientific & Industrial Opportunities in HPC: A Conversation on Latest Developments with EuroHPC's Hosting Entities, which starts at 2:30 pm.
And the last day, Thursday 23 March, will serve as the EuroHPC Ecosystem Communities Day, allowing the EUMaster4HPC students to present their studies, to award PRACE Summer of HPC students. And last but not least, an open workshop will be held, led by the representatives of Centres of Excellence and Competence Centres, including Tomáš Karásek and starting at 10:30 am.
See you in Gothenburg!