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European High-Performance Computing Projects - HANDBOOK 2020
FocusCoE
Concerted action for the European HPC CoEs
Objective FocusCoE contributes to the success of the EU HPC Ecosystem and the EuroHPC Initiative by supporting the EU HPC Centres of Excellence (CoEs) to more effectively fulfil their role within the ecosystem and initiative: ensuring that extreme scale applications result in tangible benefits for addressing scientific, industrial or societal challenges. It achieves this by creating an effective platform for the CoEs to coordinate strategic directions and collaboration (addressing possible fragmentation of activities across the CoEs and coordinating interactions with the overall HPC ecosystem) and provides support services for the CoEs in relation to both industrial outreach
www.focus-coe.eu : @FocusCoE : @focus-coe COORDINATING ORGANISATION scapos AG, Germany
and promotion of their services and competences by acting as a focal point for users to discover those services. The specific objectives and achievements of FocusCoE are • The creation of the HPC CoE Council (HPC3) in May 2019 in Poznań that allows all European HPC CoEs to collectively define an overriding strategy and collaborative implementation for interactions with, and contributions to, the EU HPC Ecosystem. • To support the HPC CoEs to achieve enhanced interaction with industry, and SMEs in particular, through concerted out-reach and business development actions. FocusCoE has already initiated
OTHER PARTNERS • CEA - Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, France • Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), Sweden • Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum der Universität Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany • Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain • University College London, UK
• Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), Italy • National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland • Teratec, France • Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany • Partnership for advanced computing in Europe (PRACE), Belgium • Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaft eV, Germany