ETP4HPC
An Industry-led think-tank guiding the development of the European advanced computing ecosystem
In 2012, the EC recognized the importance of HPC for Europe, leading to our creation in December 2012. We are the European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing, one of the 36 European Technology Platforms.
As a private, industry-led, non-profit association, we promote HPC research and innovation. ETP4HPC elaborates the European advanced computing technology roadmap, i.e. the ETP4HPC Strategic Research Agenda (SRA), which delineates the technological path for all stakeholders of the advanced computing value chain and related technologies. It is used by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) to define HPC Technology Work Programmes.
ETP4HPC is one of the three private members of the EuroHPC JU, and represented in their Advisory Board (RIAG).
vision & mission
vision
Vision
ETP4HPC aims to establish a globally competitive European HPC technology value chain, leveraging the transformative power of HPC to boost competitiveness in science and business, expanding access for SMEs, and fostering international collaboration.
ETP4HPC seeks to build bridges with other communities in the digital continuum, for example through the TransContinuum Initiative.
Mission
MISSION
Our mission involves designing and updating a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) to guide the long-term development of HPC in Europe, providing recommendations and support for its implementation, facilitating coordination with public authorities, fostering joint initiatives, supporting start-ups and SMEs, and representing the European HPC industry globally.
To do so, ETP4HPC proposes research priorities and programme contents through a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA). It is used by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU) to define HPC Technology Work Programmes. ETP4HPC is a private member of EuroHPC JU, contributing to the development of competitive European HPC technologies and systems.
organisation
ETP4HPC is managed by a Steering Board of
15 members representing:
RESEARCH CENTERS:
European controlled corporations:
EUROPEAN SMEs:
International companies with R&D in Europe:
Our steering board -
elected 14/03/2025
Chairman
Jean-Pierre Panziera
EVIDEN
Graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, he started his career in 1982 developping new algorithms for seismic processing in the research department of the Elf-Aquitaine oil company. He then moved to Silicon Valley as an application engineer and took part in startup projects, including a parallel supercomputer for Evans & Sutherland in 1989. During the following 20 years, he worked for SGI as an application engineer, and then a Chief Engineer. In 2009, he joined Bull, now an Atos company, where he is now the current Chief Technology Director for Extreme Computing.
Vice-chair for Research
Jean-Philippe Nominé
CEA
CEA Fellow, HPC Strategic Collaborations Manager – Simulation and Information Sciences Division, CEA/DIF. For more than 15 years, after different technical and managing positions in CEA HPC division, in particular in software development and engineering and high performance visualization, Dr. Ing. Nominé has mostly focused on the development of European HPC activities. He contributed in particular to the early development and operations of PRACE aisbl, of ETP4HPC Association, of Horizon 2020 HPC Public Private Partnership, and to various technical or ecosystem development European HPC projects.
Dr. Nominé has been a member of the ETP4HPC Steering Board since 2019, and was Chair of EuroHPC Research and Innovation Advisory Group (RIAG) in 2022-2023, on behalf of ETP4HPC.
Vice-chair for Industry
Robert Haas
IBM Research
Vice-chair for Industry
Jean-Marc Denis
Viridien
Secretary-Administrator
Daniele Gregori
E4
Chief Scientific Officer
Treasurer
Guy Lonsdale
FRAUNHOFER
Dr. Guy Lonsdale, CEO of scapos, got his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Manchester, UK. He has over 25 years of experience of industrial R&D in HPC. Before joining scapos he was in charge of the HPC research lab with NEC Europe. In support of Fraunhofer, he has been a member of the ETP4HPC Steering Board since its foundation and is currently its treasurer.
His current EU project roles are: leader of the open call actions for the EuroHPC project FF4EuroHPC (continuing the series of Fortissimo projects supporting the take-up of HPC by SMEs); contribution to the management team for the CASTIEL-2 CSA, where the scapos focus is collaboration with and support for the HPC Centres of Excellence (CoEs); from June 2023, coordinating scapos’s contribution to the Inno4Scale project – focusing on the open call for innovative proof of concept studies addressing algorithms for exascale computing.
our office
We have a virtual Office. The members of our Office team are based in several European countries (France, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom). They either work from home or are hosted by an ETP4HPC member.
The Office is in charge of editorial work for the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA), general support for communication and administration, and more generally, all executive tasks under the Steering Board supervision.
Meet the team: the ETP4HPC Office Experts.
Office Manager
Gabriella Povero
Gabriella graduated from Politecnico di Torino in Electronics Engineering. Since 2003, she has been with Istituto Superiore Mario Boella now Fondazione LINKS, where she led the International Cooperation team in the Satellite Navigation Research Area. In this role, she coordinated several European and national projects that focused on joint research and capacity-building actions while supporting European GNSS companies to…
SRA Expert
Sai Narasimhamurthy
He is in charge of the ETP4HPC Strategic Research Agenda. Sai is Senior Technologist and Project Manager (R&D) working with ParTec AG. Sai previously headed EU R&D for Seagate Systems where he has actively led…
Member and Industrial relations coordinator
Marcin Ostasz
He graduated from the Technical University of Budapest at the Faculty of Electronics with an MSc degree, and he also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree awarded by Oxford Brookes University in the UK. Marcin has over 20 years of combined experience gained at various technical, project management, operations management,…
Communication Leader
Pascale Bernier-Bruna
She holds a Master in Translation from Institut Supérieur d’Interprétariat et de Traduction in Paris. She joined Bull (now part of the Atos group) in 1986 and has since held a number of positions in technical documentation, marketing, and communication. She joined the HPC division in 2006. She is currently…
Accountant
Carolien Deklerk
She is based in the Netherlands.
Contact us
Our postal address
Abtspoelhof 7
2341 NS Oegstgeest
Netherlands