Position | Digitalisation | Demands 10-Point Plan for Europe
Building European High Performance Computing capacities
Scientific progress and successful new business models are increasingly based on the analysis of large amounts of data. The availability of High Performance Computing (HPC) capacities is therefore essential to ensure the EU’s long-term competitiveness. The setting up of HPC capacities must ensure that European scientific institutions, as well as companies, have access to a high-capacity infrastructure that empowers them to carry out highly innovative research and to develop new business models. From the outset, the infrastructure must be open for future technologies, especially quantum computing. In order for Europe to remain competitive in the field of supercomputing, important decisions have to be made in different areas. These include in particular, the further strengthening and promotion of European supercomputing co-operations such as PRACE and Euro HPC in order to continue to successfully pool the resources and know-how of EU member states in the field of high-performance computing in the future. It is also of particular importance that - in the context of the ongoing negotiations on the EU multiannual financial framework for the years 2021-2027 - the expenditures proposed by the EU Commission for research into quantum computing do not fall victim to the red pencil.
The a vailability of High Performance Computing capacities is an essential precondition for ensuring the long-term competitiveness of the EU.
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