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Programme Description
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (hereinafter “EuroHPC JU”), will contribute to the ambition of value creation in the Union with the overall mission to develop, deploy, extend and maintain in the Union an integrated world class supercomputing and quantum computing infrastructure and to develop and support a highly competitive and innovative High Performance Computing (HPC) ecosystem, extreme scale, power-efficient and highly resilient HPC and data technologies.
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Summary
Centres of Excellence advancing specific Lighthouse Exascale Applications, at the frontier of technology and relevant for the communities of HPC users, that enable and promote the use of upcoming exascale and post exascale computing capabilities in collaboration with other High Performance Computer (HPC) stakeholders. The goal is to develop or scale up existing application codes towards exascale performance, resulting into tangible benefits mainly for scientific challenges.
This topic builds and complements the HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2021-COE-01-01: Centres of Excellence preparing applications in the Exascale era call.
Proposals should focus on the development of specific and clearly identified applications and codes, convincingly demonstrate their exascale capabilities and needs, and present a detailed software development plan with clear timeline for the implementation including quantitative KPIs, milestones and deliverables demonstrating the achieved improvements in the strong and weak scaling of each code with respect to the baseline and different system architectures.
Detailed Call Description
Requirements for CoEs:
- Clear identification of the targeted applications and all related codes that will be developed or used in the proposal, including their user basis and the global impact in their domain. The ownership and license of each code must be listed in the proposal. Only applications (software) which are owned or controlled by the consortium members are eligible. In addition, proposals should provide lists of all relevant codes and use cases. The JU provides a specific template for this purpose.
- Present a clear baseline to demonstrate the exascale suitability for all key applications, use cases and workflows considered in the proposal substantiated by corresponding strong and weak scaling plots. Regular deliverables with updated figures should be provided according to the software development plan and at least every six months.
- Describe the European user communities of the targeted applications, the current and predicted use on EuroHPC infrastructure for the indicated codes as well as the impact of the planned developments on the European users.
- Demonstrable advances of the targeted HPC applications towards highly scalable, optimised flagship codes and exascale performance (both computing and extreme data). This includes developing, maintaining, porting, optimising (if needed re-designing) and scaling HPC application codes, addressing the full scientific/industrial workflow, particularly covering data aspects; testing and validating codes and quality assurance. This also includes horizontal tools and services that can be applied to parallel codes in any application domain to analyse and improve their performance.
- Addressing the exascale and post exascale related technical challenges, such as load balancing; resilience; heterogeneity programming models, in particular accelerator-based architecture programming; run-time systems; workflow management tools; development environments and production environments and how they are tackled.
- Involvement in co-design activities (hardware, software, codes), including the collaboration with HPC vendors and the identification of suitable applications relevant to the development of European HPC technologies towards exascale and collaboration with European initiatives (e.g. EPI, RISC- V, EuroHPC JU Pilots). This includes the expected impact of the applications on emerging HPC technologies and how the development of hardware is influencing the software development.
- Activities to improve the energy efficiency of applications, algorithms, methods, libraries and/or tools.
- Enlarging and expanding HPC applications development and use, in particular for new user communities in EU countries and countries associated to Horizon Europe that are members of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking currently developing and advancing their HPC infrastructure and ecosystem.
- Federating capabilities and integrating communities around exascale computing in Europe.
- Include clear KPIs on the optimal employment of current and/or emerging HPC technologies, allowing the assessment of the progress towards the objectives, both in terms of outputs and ultimate impact.
- Coordinate within the European ecosystem, including Competence Centres, to address the skills gap in the targeted exascale applications and codes, by specialised training and capacity building measures to develop the human capital resources for increased adoption of exascale solutions.
- Coordinate with Competence Centres to ensure wider access to codes and foster their uptake by scientific user communities.
Proposals should ensure collaboration with other Centres of Excellence for HPC applications, and other national and EU funded activities that focus on similar or complementary objectives for HPC codes and applications, in order to maximise the synergies and optimise such codes and applications for current and future architectures of EuroHPC supercomputers.
Only one proposal will be selected per Exascale Lighthouse applications topic identified above.
Targeted applications should be relevant for communities of HPC users as well as for future EuroHPC JU systems to be acquired.
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Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The EU-funding rate for eligible costs in grants awarded by the JU for this topic will be up to 50% of the eligible costs. In case a Participating State decided to entrust the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking with the management of its national contributions, this funding rate will be increased by the additional national funding rate for the eligible entities of this country.
Grants awarded under this topic will have to submit the following deliverable(s):
- Collaboration Plan
- Progress report on scaling improvements at least every six months for the different considered systems, including relevant figures on strong and weak scaling of the identified representative benchmarks and test/use cases.
The grant agreement shall provide for the right for the EuroHPC JU to object to transfers of ownership of results, or to grants of an exclusive licence regarding results, if:
- the beneficiaries which generated the results have received Union funding;
- the transfer or licensing is to a legal entity established in a non-associated third country;
- the transfer or licensing is not in line with Union interests.
Thematic Categories
- Information Technology
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Training Centres
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Participation is limited to legal entities established in Member States and legal entities established in countries associated to Horizon Europe that are members of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking.
Proposals including entities established in countries outside the scope specified in the call/topic/action will be ineligible.
Beneficiaries will be subject to the additional exploitation obligations requiring that first exploitation of the results takes place in the European Union and the Participating States of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. Applicants must acknowledge this requirement in the proposal and Annex I to the Grant Agreement.
Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional dissemination obligations: Dissemination of training activities in collaboration with linked grants and relevant Coordination and Support Actions as a coordinated training programme.
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Call Closing Date
EU Contact Point
EuroHPC JU