Europe should relaunch research and development in the field. New ideas, research and exploration should be stimulated, alongside the training of young researchers and education of students. If Europe would pursue this goal, and is starting to create opportunities, a scenario must be developed with hardware, software and application elements. The hardware scenario should aim at creating complete systems with advanced architectures, based on commodity components and supported by development of enabling hardware technologies. Innovative software tools should complete the basic system.
Application software is available in abundance in Europe.
We can build on a large number of success stories where a major role is played by industrial end users. Work on integrating systems and embedded systems is done on a large scale in Europe, both on the demand and on the supply side of the market. Orlandi sees the Italian national HPCN plan as a first step. He proposes several actions to follow up on a European scale. On the supply side, a long term view should be developed, based on a horizontal approach, with focused funding and supported by the European Commission.