HPC Infrastructures Workshop: 2020 Online Event

The annually held series of European Workshops on HPC Infrastructures (EWHPC) aim to bring together worldwide specialists in HPC centre design and operation to discuss the latest trends in infrastructure and supporting technologies for supercomputing centres. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 11th EWHPC was cancelled and a shorter online event was offered instead. It attracted more than 100 participants from 40 different HPC sites and provided a general overview on EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) as well as updates on three EuroHPC JU pre-exascale consortia and their systems: Leonardo (hosted at CINECA), LUMI (hosted at CSC), and MareNostrum 5 (hosted at BSC). The EWHPC online event was held on 14th of October and virtually collocated with an online PRACE Topical Session on “Exascale for European Datacentres” held on 15 October 2020, then followed by the traditional PRACE session on HPC infrastructures with technical presentations from PRACE sites on 16 October 2020. This document summarises the presentations and discussions held at the online event and the PRACE session on HPC infrastructures