Handbook of European HPC projects

HiPEAC 8

High Performance, Edge And Cloud computing

HiPEAC will reinforce Europe’s computing ecosystem across the IoT, edge, cloud and HPC continuum through clear objectives and practical actions.

Objectives are:

  1. produce and disseminate an annually updated community vision that translates technical, business and societal trends into research and policy priorities;
  2. align agendas across European partnerships by running a Partnership Forum with joint undertakings, industry associations and alliances;
  3. accelerate innovation by encouraging technology transfer and technopreneurship;
  4. grow the European skills pipeline through training, Job mobility and recruitment;
  5. provide professional communication and dissemination that turns expert insights into accessible messages for different target groups.

Actions are:

  • a yearly HiPEAC conference and a yearly ACACES summer school;
  • a Talent Hub that runs year round;
  • a jobs portal for increased job mobility; and
  • an actively managed set of communication and dissemination channels.

The project will reduce ecosystem fragmentation through roadmap alignment and strengthen the European computing ecosystem through networking. Expected results include a joint vision on the future of computing, stronger academia-industry collaboration, faster transfer of research to market, and a larger, better trained workforce attracted to European job opportunities.

Expected impacts on the longer term are: less silos in the computing ecosystem, more science and technology clusters to support technopreneurs, a more dynamic job market, and increased sovereignty by more designed-in-Europe technologies. The consortium builds on a mature community with 2,600 computing experts, successful project execution, and an open, transparent and inclusive view on the future of computing in Europe.

PROJECT’S CONTACT:

Contact email

Call:
HORIZON-CL4-2025-03-DATA-10

Coordinating Organization:
Universiteit Gent, Belgium

Project Timespan
2026-05-01 – 2029-04-30

Other Partners:
  • BSC – Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
  • CEA – Commissariat à l Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, France
  • Eclipse Foundation Europe GmbH, Germany
  • Ericsson AB, Sweden
  • ETP4HPC – European Technology Platform for High-Performance Computing, Netherlands
  • IMEC – Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum, Belgium
  • INRIA – Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, France
  • Inside, Netherlands
  • RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  • SINTEF AS, Norway
  • Thales SA, France