D4.5: Updated Scientific Case for a European HPC Infrastructure
Giovanni Erbacci, Jacko Koster · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2012
In 2005 and 2006, an international panel produced a White Paper entitled ‘Scientific Case for a European Super Computing Infrastructure’ that argued the case for High Performance Computing (HPC) to support European competitiveness. The document was published by the “HPC in Europe Taskforce” (HET) in January 2007. The initiative was instrumental to the establishment of PRACE – The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe – and the PRACE Research Infrastructure (PRACE-RI) in April 2010. Five years after the publication of the scientific case, the HPC landscape in Europe has changed significantly. This Deliverable represents the culmination of WP4 - Task 4.5 in the First Implementation Phase project of PRACE (PRACE-1IP) to create an update of the Scientific Case and capture the current and expected future needs of the scientific communities. It has involved the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee (SSC), the PRACE User Forum, the PRACE AISBL and many researchers from a variety of scientific domains. This document describes in short the considerations and decisions that were made to define the process to update of the Scientific Case. The Scientific Case document itself is published separately and will be made available to a wide audience.