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.

The aim is to support the R&I technology development of innovative and competitive European HPC inter-node interconnect technology.

Therefore, this topic is focused on innovation action in Low Latency and High Bandwidth Interconnects.

Grants award under this topic will have to submit the following deliverable(s):

• a development roadmap with a sufficient number of control points (milestones, deliverables, etc.) that provide the granting authority with a detailed assessment of the project progress, at least every six months
• fully functional prototype (tape-out) of inter-node interconnect hardware capable of delivering competitive performance for exascale and post-exascale supercomputers
• regular reports on latency, power efficiency, virtualisation, scalability, reliability, security as soon as a suitable testing environment is available
• software stack, including configuration, installation and management tools
• fully functional pilot for the developed inter-node interconnect hardware and software stack, demonstrated by relevant benchmarks and acceptance tests

Beneficiaries will be subject to the additional access rights. Access rights relating to Participating States refer to EuroHPC Participating States as defined in the eligibility conditions of the call.

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is only funding up to 35% of eligible costs for Innovation Actions (except for non-profit legal entities, where a rate of 50% applies). Applicants are invited to contact the competent national funding agencies to inquire about the availability of matching national funds and specific national eligibility conditions before submitting a proposal.

The granting authority can fund a maximum of one project.

If funding for projects funded under topic is coming from more than one EU programme, this action is an EU Synergy grant.

• Energy
• Research, Technological Development and Innovation

• Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions

Proposals should clearly demonstrate that all partners in the consortium have a significant and justified role, including appropriate deliverables under their responsibility which cover the specific contributions of each partner. Due to the specific focus of the action, the consortium is expected to include not more than five partners to ensure an efficient and effective implementation and delivery of the objectives.

The JU considers that a contribution from the JU of up to €30 million, matched by the Participating States with a similar amount, and a duration of 3 years would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nevertheless this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals with another duration or requesting other amounts.

The following additional eligibility criteria apply:

• All partners of a consortium should contribute with at least 10% of the overall personnel resources.
• For the duly justified and exceptional reasons listed in the paragraph above, in order to guarantee the protection of the strategic interests of the Union and its Member States, entities established in an eligible country listed above, but which are directly or indirectly controlled by a non-eligible country or by a non-eligible country entity, may not participate in the action unless it can be demonstrated, by means of guarantees approved by the eligible country of establishment, that their participation to the action would not negatively impact the Union’s strategic, assets, interests, autonomy, or security.

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.

EuroHPC JU

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• Funding&Tenders
• EuroHPC Decision No 10/2023 - Amending the Joint Undertaking's Work Programme and Budget for the year 2023, p.26