Because Data Shall Grow (and we With it)

Rakers J, Miller B, Mohrbacher J, et al. Because Data Shall Grow (and we With it). Presented at the 1st Conference on Research Data Infrastructure - Connecting Communities, Karlsruhe, Germany.Poster for conference abstract: https://doi.org/10.52825/cordi.v1i.278 Research data are a valuable asset of their own and individual researchers as well as the research community as a whole can benefit through data sharing practices and open science. These benefits include but are not limited to higher data quality or the more efficient use of time and financial resources. Despite these potential gains, data sharing is not widespread yet and processes of cultural change are needed to reap the benefits of data sharing. Against this background, the NFDI can function as a platform for discussion and provides a network that extends beyond individual research bubbles in the name of common interests and facilitate cultural change processes towards data sharing. A first collaborative workshop in April 2023 identified four central clusters of interest including 1. policies, strategies and funding; 2. communities, workshops and multipliers; 3. publications and 4. collaboration, communication and error cultures. Departing from this, we contemplate developing a vision on how to further encourage cultural change in the NFDI through a series of workshops. As a result, a vision of cultural change within and with the NFDI will be published by the end of 2023 to further guide the processes to facilitate cultural change. A first step could be to change the guiding metaphor for data: Not &ldquo;Gold&rdquo; or &ldquo;Oil&rdquo;, but &ldquo;Humus&rdquo; for healthy growth of a collaborative data ecosystem.</p

Co-designed Innovation and System for Resilient Exascale Computing in Europe: From Applications to Silicon (EuroEXA)

EuroEXA targets to provide the template for an upcoming exascale system by co-designing and implementing a petascale-level prototype with ground-breaking characteristics. To accomplish this, the project takes a holistic approach innovating both across the technology and the application/system software pillars. EuroEXA proposes a balanced architecture for compute and data-intensive applications, that builds on top of cost-efficient, modular-integration enabled by novel inter-die links, utilises a novel processing unit and embraces FPGA acceleration for computational, networking and storage operations. EuroEXA hardware designers work together with system software experts optimising the entire stack from language runtimes to low-level kernel drivers, and application developers that bring in a rich mix of key HPC applications from across climate/weather, physical/energy and life-science/bioinformatics domains to enable efficient system co-design and maximise the impact of the project