Written by Jan Martinovič, EXA4MIND project coordinator & Stephan Hachinger, EXA4MIND science and co-design coordinator
Dear reader,
We are entering the final phase of our journey with the EXA4MIND project. The vision of building a flexibly deployable Extreme Data Platform that integrates advanced data storage systems with powerful computing infrastructures is becoming a reality. Over the past year, we have reached significant milestones, bringing us closer to delivering cutting-edge solutions for Extreme Data management and analytics.
We would like to thank the entire consortium for their hard work and contributions, which have helped the project move forward. We have built upon our first open-source platform release from the summer, and published an Inference-Service framework to run an Inference Server on supercomputing infrastructure and toolboxes with preprocessing and analytics tools. We will continue with the publication of data-staging and caching workflows and tools, and with a module for publishing database data and for enabling connectivity from an EXA4MIND platform deployment to European Data Ecosystems.
As we close this successful year for EXA4MIND, the project has achieved outstanding results in terms of scientific publications. This reflects both our technical work and the excellence and successes of our application-case partners using our platform. To date, we count 13 journal papers, with 8 already published and 5 currently under review, together with 20 conference papers at different stages of the publication process. These results highlight the strong scientific excellence of EXA4MIND and the active role of the consortium in advancing the state of the art in AI and extreme-scale computing.
We also launched EXAKI, the knowledge centre for implementing EXA4MIND technologies in research and industrial applications. Alongside this, EXAKI continues to grow as a core asset of the project, supported by a dynamic and ongoing training plan. Several training sessions have already been successfully delivered this year with strong engagement from the community, and additional sessions are planned for the coming months. This continuous training effort is key to fostering skills development and supporting the uptake of EXA4MIND technologies across research and industry.
This year, EXA4MIND has been very visible on the European stage. We showcased our progress at the major events, including Data Spaces Symposium in Warsaw, Data Week in Athens, and ISC High Performance 2025 in Hamburg. Additionally, at the European Big Data Value Forum 2025 in Copenhagen we co-hosted the DataNexus session on extreme data architectures. Our collaboration within the DataNexus cluster continues, advancing the dialogue on extreme data challenges and solutions. We were also proud to present EXA4MIND technology to students at the Czech-Bavarian Supercomputing Summer School 2025.
Looking ahead, we wish you all the best for 2026! The EXA4MIND project will continue into the coming year, and we are excited to share its progress. We will be disseminating project results at SCA/HPC Asia, presenting posters, and at CS3, where we have proposed talks.
