Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Digital Europe Programme is the first EU programme that aims to accelerate the recovery and drive the digital transformation of Europe.
Worth €7.6 billion (in current prices), the Programme is a part of the next long-term EU budget, (the Multiannual Financial Framework), and it covers 2021 to 2027. It will provide funding for projects in five crucial areas: supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills, and ensuring the wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society.
The Programme is fine-tuned to fill the gap between the research of digital technologies and their deployment, and to bring the results of research to the market – for the benefit of Europe’s citizens and businesses, and in particular SMEs. Investments under the Digital Europe programme supports the Union’s twin objectives of a green transition and digital transformation and strengthens the Union’s resilience and strategic autonomy.
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Call
Summary
The call aims for the establishment and four-year operation of a distributed European-wide high- performance computing application support service. The selected project should bring together Application Support Teams (AST) established (primarily) in current or future EuroHPC Hosting Entities, operating the EuroHPC supercomputers. ASTs will work closely with the EuroHPC JU Peer Review Office managing the evaluation and allocation of access time to European HPC supercomputers as the applications and respective user teams to be supported will be primarily selected by peer-review process managed by the EuroHPC JU. Through this process ASTs are expected to provide their services to a selected number of flagship/lighthouse which have been allocated time in the context of the EuroHPC JU Extreme Scale and Regular Access calls.
Detailed Call Description
ASTs should offer a broad range of support services aiming primarily on Level 2 and 3 application support encompassing at least the following services:
Application porting and optimization
- Code enabling and scaling
- Elaboration of performance analysis and benchmarks for selected applications
- R&D on code refactoring
- Short to medium term support of selected applications/user groups (3-18 months)
- Domain independent, architecture specific trainings (targeting the EuroHPC supercomputers)
- Development of best practice guides for using the EuroHPC supercomputers.
- Collaboration with equivalent groups at European and International level on technical matters related to supporting pre/exascale application work.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of the European HPC Application Support service by sharing lessons learned and providing feedback to the EuroHPC JU on user requirements and service gaps.
- Customised support to scientific and research community from public and private research institutes and academia, industry and SMEs.
The project should establish a coordination layer between the participating teams, allowing exchange of knowledge, information, as well as harmonization of a range of services and service level provided. The size of the selected ASTs should be proportional to the size of the local system supported and is expected to be in the range of 4-6 experts for pre-exascale level systems and beyond, and in the range of 2-4 experts for petascale and mid-range systems.
The project should offer a single point of contact (in the form of a European HPC Application Support portal) that will allow European HPC users to retrieve information on the systems offered by the Joint Undertaking, their architectures, their access mechanisms, and the support services available.
ASTs are also expected to cooperate with key support actions funded by the EuroHPC JU, including EuroCC (Competence Centres), the Centres of Excellence (CoEs), and future training initiatives.
Call Total Budget
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Information Technology
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness
Eligibility for Participation
- Educational Institutions
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- Training Centres
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)
Targeted stakeholders:
Public and private organisations, established in the eligible countries, which are supercomputing centres, or affiliated with supercomputing centres, seeking to establish or having already established the role of Hosting Entity of EuroHPC JU.
Consortium composition – Proposals must be submitted by:
a consortium of a minimum of 3 independent entities (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 3 different eligible countries
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy
Directorate of Research and Innovation
Eleana Gabriel
Telephone: +357 22 691918
Email: egabriel@dmrid.gov.cy
(Publish Date: 20/03/2023-for internal use only)
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