Today, the partners of the POP CoE -- Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd (NAG), Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH), and Ter@tec -- met in Barcelona for their kick-off meeting.

After the greetings and introduction by the coordinator, Prof. Jesús Labarta, the seven work packages of the project were discussed by the work package leaders:

• WP1: Management (BSC)
• WP2: Customer Advocacy (Ter@tec)
• WP3: POP Community Development and Sustainability (NAG)
• WP4: Analysis (BSC)
• WP5: Proof-of-Concept (HLRS)
• WP6: Training and Documentation (RWTH)
• WP7: Dissemination (JSC)