Advanced Computing Portugal 2030 Session – “Progress achieved and new challenges”

On October 23, the Portugal INCoDe.2030 program is organizing an Advanced Computing session as part of the expansion of the MACC – Minho Advanced Computing Center, under the motto “Progress achieved and new challenges,” where the advanced computing needs of the scientific and technological community will be discussed among current and potential future users of the MACC.

The Azurém Campus of the University of Minho, in Guimarães, will host this session, which aims to discuss various topics that will serve to guide the management of MACC and to provide advanced computing services that better serve Portuguese research groups and companies. The FCT/MACC-Minho Advanced Computing Center (2018) installation, the level of use of the first "BOB" supercomputer cluster since 2019, the progress achieved in Portuguese participation in the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking initiative, and the status of the Deucalion petascale machine installation for 2021 are the topics on the agenda.

The session, which will feature opening remarks by the rector of the University of Minho, Rui Vieira de Castro, and the Minister of Science, Technology, and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor (via videoconference), will include a national and international panel that includes, among others, the general coordinator of the INCoDe.2030 program and the National Computing Strategy, Nuno Feixa Rodrigues, and the deputy director-general of DG Connect, European Commission, Khalil Rouhana.

This session takes place one month after the first edition Call Advanced Computing Call , the first Call the provision of computing resources with approximately 27 million hours on national platforms included in the National Advanced Computing Network (RNCA), which received more than 130 applications and in which BOB, the supercomputer operated by the Minho Advanced Computing Center, was the platform most requested by applicants.

To register for Advanced Computing Portugal 2030: https://indico.fccn.pt/event/8/registrations/5/

Attachments:

Program

ACP.2030 – Advanced Computing Portugal 2030 – Progress Report 2019-2020

BOB/MACC Usage Report

Advanced Computing Portugal 2030: implementation status