ETP4HPC's SRA 6 - Strategic Research Agenda for High Performance Computing in Europe

The European Strategic Research Agenda 6, or the SRA6 reflects the state of the European Advanced Computing (AC) ecosystem[1], which includes High Performance Computing and associated areas such as Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing interactions - edited and published by the European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing (ETP4HPC). The publication of Strategic Research Agendas has been one of the primary goals of the ETP4HPC, which is the largest industry-led think tank for High Performance Computing in Europe, since its inception in 2012. The Strategic Research Agendas have been published approximately every two years, with the last SRA5 published towards the end of the COVID pandemic in September 2022. A lot has changed in the last couple of years, and that primarily also reflects the timing of the publication of these strategic research agendas, which captures the state of European HPC (& related) technologies at every 2 year “checkpoints”, which we think is a reasonable time window to see measurable changes in the HPC landscape. [1] Please note that we will use the term “HPC” in this document to include the whole of the Advanced computing landscape, that includes HPC and all associated areas, in this SRA