“Minho Manifesto” to stimulate European high-performance computing network

The “Minho Manifesto on European HPC for Science and Innovation” was presented on 18 June during the High-Level Roundtable “High-Performance Computing for Science and Innovation – Bringing together the five new European HPC petascale systems”, which took place under the scope of the Portuguese Presidency

of the Council of the European Union.

The European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Mariya Gabriel, and the Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, visited Guimarães to learn about the progress of the Minho Advanced Computing Center (MACC), which will host the new ecological supercomputer Deucalion, in 2022.

The ceremony took place from 8:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m., at the Design Institute, located in the Couros campus of the University of Minho. The program also featured speeches by the Slovenian Minister for Science, Simona Kustec, MEPs Graça Carvalho and Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, the rector of UMinho, Rui Vieira de Castro, the representative of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Paulo Quaresma, the president of CCDR-N, António Cunha, and the director of MACC and researcher at UMinho School of Engineering and INESC TEC, Rui Oliveira. The livestreaming of the event was available on UMinho's YouTube channel, and it included a virtual tour to MACC and a press conference with Manuel Heitor. The photos of the High-Performance Computing for Science and Innovation event are available here.

The “Minho Manifesto on European HPC for Science and Innovation” provides for the creation of a European collaborative network in order to promote research and innovation through high-performance computing and allow for the development of an integrated European infrastructure, which is fundamental to the green and digital transitions.

This event was part of the program of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the “MACC User Group Workshop”, which took place between June 15 and 18 June, at UMinho, with participants from all over the world. The initiative was organized by MACC and the multinationals Fujitsu and ARM, with the support from the universities of Minho and Bristol (England), the British consortium GW4, the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), the Digital Transformation CoLab (DTx), FCT and the European project EuroCC.