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TERATEC 2017 Forum
Plenary sessions
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 from 9h30 to 18h00

The European HPC strategy – the European Data Infrastructure (EDI)
Khalil ROUHANA, Deputy Director-General in DG CONNECT, EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Abstract : Digitisation is in the heart of the Digital Single Market and it is impacting all areas of our life and economy. High Performance Computing (HPC), Big Data and Cloud are critical technologies that are driving major scientific, industrial and social innovations in the global digital economy.

The Commission's European Cloud Initiative aims at putting Europe in the driving seat of the global data-driven economy, based on the capacity to manage, store and analyse the huge volumes of information generated by the data revolution. The European Cloud Initiative foresees actions to establish in Europe a complete HPC ecosystem, including the acquisition of world-class supercomputers, the development of European HPC technology and system supply, and the deployment of HPC services to scientists, industry, including SMEs and public sector. No single Member State will have the human or financial resources to acquire exascale capabilities and develop the necessary HPC ecosystem on its own in the same time frame as the US, Japan or China. The European Cloud Initiative will require the coordination of national and European investments in an EU-level strategy.

At the Digital Day in Rome (23 March 2017) seven Member States (France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain) committed to work in the context of a multi-government agreement (EuroHPC) for acquiring and deploying an integrated EU-wide exascale supercomputing infrastructure to upraise Europe's scientific capabilities and industrial competitiveness.

Biography : Khalil Rouhana is the Deputy Director-General in DG CONNECT (Communications Networks, Content & Technology) since 1/12/2016. His responsibilities include the policies for digital economy and society and notably for research, innovation and industrial strategies, digital solution for societal challenges and governments as well as cybersecurity. Before that he was Director for "Digital Industry" in DG CONNECT supporting the competitiveness of core digital sectors in Europe and the digitisation of all industrial sectors of the economy. In his previous experiences in the Commission, he was the Director for "Digital content & Cognitive systems", the Head of Unit in charge of ICT research and Innovation strategy, and started as a project officer in the ESPRIT programme in the areas of High Performance Computing and Future and Emerging technologies. Before joining the Commission in 1992, he was for 5 years the director of an institute and school of engineering (Grande Ecole) in France.  He started his career as research and development engineer for the aeronautics industry, worked for the French University in Beirut and created also his own engineering company. He has a master degree in electrical and electronic engineering from "Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité" (Supelec, France).

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