Centres of Excellence preparing applications in the Exascale era

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

EuroHPC JOINT UNDERTAKING

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.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2021-COE-01-01

Call

Centres of Excellence preparing applications in the Exascale era

Summary

Proposals must clearly identify the Exascale Lighthouse applications addressed, and must convincingly demonstrate their exascale capabilities and needs. Proposals should also be able to articulate clearly the scientific grand challenge(s) which will be addressed by the applications and why the exascale performance is needed. Targeted applications should be relevant for communities of HPC users as well as for future EuroHPC JU systems to be acquired. Proposals should be inherently committed to co-design activities to ensure that future HPC architectures are well suited for the applications and their users.

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:

  • Clear identification of the targeted applications and related codes, including their user basis and the global impact in their domain.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.

Call Total Budget

€45,000,000

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 € 8,000,000

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.

Details for the eligibility conditions, on page 15-16 of the EuroHPC JU Decision Work Plan 2022.

Call Opening Date

27/01/2022

Call Closing Date

06/04/2022

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