MAX_824143 D9.2 Impact Assessment Report, mid-term version

This Report presents an assessment of the impact of the main outcomes of the MaX Centre of Excellence in its first 18 months. MaX is now established as a cornerstone of the European HPC applications ecosystem, and is recognized as a reference point in the computational materials research community. MaX flagship applications and the workflow and data platforms have extended their global users pool, enabling them to take advantage of the forthcoming EuroHPC architectures for extreme performance and high throughput computing. The number of citations that the codes have received in scientific publication exceeds 4200 publications in the period January 2019 - May 2020 (over 10000 estimated single downloads/year). The number of participants who were directly exposed to MaX training activities in the same period exceeds 1000. The report demonstrates how MaX activities impact all its stakeholders in industry and academia. This impact was supported by a massive effort on services and on networking, dissemination and communication activities. The consortium has also had to introduce an agile and results-oriented approach towards substituting scheduled, physical events due to the global pandemic to other means of virtual formats to help demonstrate the impacts of MAX. The report also shows how strong relationships in Europe between main initiatives are brought to the table, including effective networking and collaborations within the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and the EOSC community, with other HPC Centres of Excellence and all the actors of the European HPC ecosystem. It also shows the strong network of MaX with many domain specific initiatives such as e.g. the Psi-k, Cecam and the Graphene flagship project. This Impact Assessment Report is submitted in the concluding year of Horizon 2020 whilst looking at distinct priorities for Horizon Europe, namely: Digital Transformation, Green Transition and Security & Autonomy , which are already at the core of MAX and will be key priorities in its work plan for the 1 following years as well