Dear Colleague,
I am writing regarding a recent initiative led by CERN to prepare an application for a Center of Excellence in High-Performance Computing for High Energy Physics. EuroHPC Centre of Excellence
In my role as a member of the EuroLFT Executive Board, I have been asked to represent the lattice community, contribute to the preparation of the application, and coordinate the lattice input. With this task in mind, I am reaching out to the entire EuroLFT community.
Within EuroLFT, we see this as a unique opportunity for the lattice community to be represented at an institutional level in Europe and to become an active, well-recognised partner within the broader High Energy Physics community. It is therefore essential for us to involve the entire European lattice community as widely as possible in the activities related to the CoE.
Our aim is to build a broad and coordinated involvement across the HEP community.
While funding for the CoE will be limited and beneficiaries of direct financial support will necessarily be selective, the possibility to be associated with the application and to contribute actively to the various activities will be open to every research group.
The ambition of the project goes well beyond extending the scalability of a few selected HEP codes on large HPC systems.
The broader goal is to establish a reference center for large-scale HEP scientific computing in Europe: a focal point for developing new codes, improving existing ones, and providing default expertise and infrastructure for the community at large.
A non-exhaustive list of activities includes:
-) Enhancing scientific reach
-) Improving scalability of theoretical HEP codes
-) Improving scalability of experimental HEP codes
-) Validating enabling technologies and solutions
-) Scouting and evaluating emerging HPC technologies
-) Ensuring long-term sustainability
-) Community building
-) Assessing solutions relevant to neighbouring scientific domains
I am therefore writing to request the involvement of you and your collaborators in this initiative. Participation in the activities will be open to the entire lattice community once the CoE is established; however, at this stage we are seeking explicit support for the application itself.
As the deadline for submitting the application is at the end of the month (20 of January), we would greatly appreciate a swift action.
If you and your institution are willing to be listed as supporting the application, please get in touch with me.
A simple email of support will suffice. All supporting institutions will be listed in the application and represented through a single, collective letter of support.
Best regards, Antonio Rago on behalf of the EuroLFT Executive Board
To support the call, please contact Antonio Rago.