European Commission Directorate General for Comm : First milestone in European HPC strategy achieved

The call for Public Procurement of Innovative solutions (PPI) closed in September 2016. The PPI is catalysing the efforts to vitalise the European HPC ecosystem with a better coordination of supply and demand in a European acquisition market for HPC. It is a first step in the coordination of Member States' acquisition of leading-class supercomputers available to users at national and European levels. This joint procurement (under grant agreement preparation) is a very important contribution to the achievement of the goals of the European Cloud Initiative. Ultimately, this will strengthen the position of Europe as a world-class HPC hub, with more leading-class HPC computing resources and services available for European academia and industry through PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe).