D8.3 Interim progress report: Public Prototype software release and development infrastructure

Work Package 8 of PRACE-6IP has successfully initiated ten projects developing forward-looking software solutions. Eight of these projects started in April 2019 immediately, whilst two projects started in January 2020, after selection in a second call for proposals. This deliverable reports on the public release of prototype software by all projects. This early release of work-in-progress software guarantees software availability to the community, and provides the community with an opportunity to inspect, test, and provide feedback. All first phase projects have provided links to accessible code repositories such as GitHub, Bitbucket and similar. Projects typically use a modern development infrastructure, including version control, automated continuous integration (CI), and standard documentation formats. Testing includes correctness as well as performance. Whereas the readiness level of the projects differs, integration in user codes has taken place, first performance results have been included in this report, and certain codes have already become part of the procurement benchmarks of the EuroHPC Joint-Undertaking Pre-Exascale systems. The first phase of this work package can thus be considered successful