Centre of excellence for HPC and engineering: Concept development

This paper describes how and why a Centre of Excellence for HPC and Engineering should be established and showcases the added value for its potential users. We list the necessary elements for creating a baseline and we describe the roles the different stakeholders of such a Centre are called to play. The Centre brings together (HPC) Resource Providers, Application/Code Owners and Business specialists to support the growing amount of new engineering applications, as well as re-usage and adaptation of already available applications by new user groups. The impact on the larger European community can be summarised as: reduced costs and more high-skilled jobs. Both, a result of a smoother, more economic workflow from design and testing to manufacturing/building.