On July 5, 2021 at 2pm (GMT +7) was held the first day of the EU-ASEAN High-Performance Computing (HPC) Virtual School 2021: System Design and HPC Applications.

The EU-ASEAN HPC Virtual School 2021 is a hands-on virtual curriculum taught by foremost international experts in HPC technology. It is hosted by National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) Supercomputer Center (ThaiSC), Thailand. Over five days from 5 to 9 July 2021, 60 selected participants from ASEAN Member States will learn about the fundamentals of HPC design and applications to critical domains such as COVID-19, urgent computing and climate science from international luminaries from Europe, ASEAN and Japan through formal and practical courses. By attending the school, the students will learn basic HPC design and programming skills to access local and international HPC platforms with proficiency. They will also gain exposure to international collaboration opportunities in an EU-ASEAN context. Students who complete all practical exercises will receive a digital certificate of participation.

The first day, Sebastien Varrette was speaker during the session dedicated to the “Overview of the European HPC ecosystem” – see program.

His keynote, entitled “Outcomes of the EU-ASEAN HPC Mapping Study for ASEAN and European HPC Research Infrastructures”, was based on the E-READI HPC Expert Study he has done for the European Commission.

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The last day of the event (on July 9, 2021), a panel was organized t he Future of High-Performance Computing moderared by Anders Dam Jensen, EuroHPC Director with the following Panelists:

• Prof. Dwikorita Karnawati, Head of Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG)
• Prof. Jose Ignacio Latorre, Director, Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore
• Dr Kimmo Koski, Director, CSC, Finland
• Prof Mateo Valero, Director, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain
• Prof Pascal Bouvry, CEO, LuxProvide, Luxembourg HPC Center
• Prof Satoshi Matsuoka, Director, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), Japan
• Tay Kheng Tiong, Chairman of ASEAN HPC Taskforce / CEO, A*STAR, Computational Resource Center, Singapore