Programme Category
Programme Name
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.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is preparing the transition towards exascale with a new call on Centres of Excellence for HPC. The Centres of Excellence (CoE) address scientific and industrial applications and user communities that run world leading codes or ensembles that aggregate to pre-exascale workloads, and may require exascale resources in specific cases. All CoEs should be user-driven and inherently committed to co-design activities to ensure that future HPC architectures are well suited for the applications and their users (both from academia and industry), providing a high performance and scalable application base.
Detailed Call Description
The call will support research and innovation actions that will develop and adapt HPC applications for the exascale and post-exascale era. Adapting existing applications to exascale computing capability requires significant changes and in some cases current application codes cannot run on exascale or post-exascale systems without a complete rethink or substantial code rewrite.
Requirements for CoEs:
- The provision of services supporting different usage models for the community needs, including developing, maintaining, 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,
- Enhancing HPC applications and ensembles of coupled applications towards highly scalable, optimised codes.
- Streamline development, collaboration, automated testing and deployment processes throughout the application development and maintenance cycle, for example, by provisioning and using state-of-the-art development tools, platforms and software management models.
- Fostering pre-exascale-oriented codes and innovative algorithms that address societal challenges and/or are important for key scientific and industrial applications. Demonstration of clear societal, industrial, and/or scientific benefit is mandatory.
- Provision of codes aimed at capacity pre-exascale systems for ensemble workloads that might not need tight interconnection between runs. Proposals must convincingly demonstrate the ensemble pre-exascale capabilities and needs.
- Collaboration with EuroHPC JU systems and infrastructure federation initiatives to implement a robust and reliable automated deployment process for applications, in order to make novel developments timely available to the EuroHPC JU user communities.
- 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.
(further details in the funding&tenders portal)
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
50%
Expected EU and Participating State contribution per project: € 4,000,000 to € 6,000,000
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.
Thematic Categories
- Information Technology
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
The call will support this transition in collaboration with HPC users and relevant stakeholders to bring tangible benefits to European researchers and industries and address current scientific, industrial and societal challenges. Ensure wider access to codes and foster their uptake by user communities, in particular industry and SMEs.
Details for the eligibility conditions, on page 19-20 of the EuroHPC JU Decision Work Plan 2022.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
EU Contact Point
EuroHPC JU