Scientific Case for the European HPC infrastructure

In 2005 and 2006, an international panel produced the Scientific Case for a European Super Computing Infrastructure that demonstrated the need of a European HPC infrastructure. The document was published by the HPC in Europe Taskforce in January 2007. The initiative was instrumental to the establishment of  the PRACE Research Infrastructure in April 2010.

Five years after the publication of the scientific case, the HPC landscape in Europe has changed significantly. The PRACE Research Infrastructure is providing Tier-0 HPC services to Europe, a global effort has been launched towards achieving Exascale HPC by the end of this decade, and the importance of HPC in solving the socio-economic challenges and maintaining Europe’s competitiveness has become even more evident. Therefore, PRACE started an initiative to create an update of the Scientific Case to define the current and expected future needs of the scientific communities. It involves the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) and is funded through the PRACE-1IP project.