World Earthquake Map and Beyond
ICT2013 brought together Europe's best & brightest in ICT research, with businesses old & new, web start-ups and digital strategists to chart a path for Europe's ICT research policy. 
ICT2013 - Create, connect, Grow - confirmed to be the largest event in Europe ICT for  research with nearly 6000 registered participants, 200 exhibitors, 180 networking sessions and 80 renowned global speakers. Furthermore, almost 4.000 people followed the conference  online and via social media.
Some of the panellists discussed Exascale computing as
Exascale means computing at a level 1000 times more than the top computers today, meaning the capability to manage both big data (extabytes) and extreme computing (exaflops). The main stakeholders and user community would be: climate scientists, astrophysicists, medical and bio-researches working in genomics, but it is not only scientists that will benefit. It would  be great gains in European industrial applications; a direct example given is the aerospace industry. In  the exascale level, there will be a need to develop new software and application paradigms, new supporting technologies for memory management, energy efficiency, and cooling, all of these are regarded as being grand research challenges.
For scientific projects to succeed different level of infrastructures support is needed. Policy makers have to establish laingy down general rules in High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure.
Suppliers of HPC cycles should listen more what user needs, not to just seek the idea of HPC. The roadmap of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) for the exascale is built in 3 phases. After development activities of the system including the challenges related to the integration of multi-petaflop systems, comes the optimization of software to higher performance and collaboration between the developers and users of large systems, in order to optimise applications.
Without HPC it’s impossible to model and represent how brain stores information, there is some theories but no experimental proof so far. It’s believed that by using HPC it would be possible to re-engineer a brain's communication protocol and apply it to smaller devices even handheld, it would be like having a brain inspired device in your pocket. 
The pan-European cloud computing infrastructure Helix Nebula is a new, pioneering partnership between big science and big business in Europe that is charting the course towards the sustainable provision of cloud computing - the Science Cloud. The partnership brings together leading IT providers and three of Europe’s leading research centres, CERN, EMBL and ESA in order to provide computing capacity and services that elastically meet big science’s growing demand for computing power. 
Helix Nebula' s research is not limited only to science. This is really big opportunity for public and IT sector to work closely.  There is an interesting example about earthquake modelling for whole earth using Helix Nebula system, facilitating the co-operation with the civil engineering HPC communities who through simple changes in infrastructure in poor countries could delay the time of collapse, thus savings people's lives.