At the beginning of November, IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center held a conference for its current and future supercomputing users. During the programme, we introduced the participants to Europe’s most powerful supercomputer network and how to access it. This network also includes the Karolina supercomputer in Ostrava, operated by IT4Innovations.
Interested participants thus received the most up-to-date information on computing systems and planned innovations presented by the pan-European EuroHPC Joint Undertaking at the user conference held in Amsterdam in October.
However, we mainly presented key details about the five types of EuroHPC JU calls through which it is possible to apply for computational resources of European supercomputers. We also provided an overview of the evaluation process concerning the submitted project applications and the closure dates of each call.
The Users’ Conference of IT4Innovations attracted almost 80 participants, who took part in 22 expert lectures and subsequent discussions. Major topics included advances in machine learning, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics, and materials engineering. These talks demonstrated the practical results and benefits that the use of supercomputers brings across a variety of scientific domains. For more information, visit the IT4Innovations website.
5 types of calls for companies, researchers, and public institutions to obtain computational resources
The EuroHPC JU grant competitions are divided into five categories according to the purpose of use and the required amount of computational resources of supercomputers. The following calls are currently available:
- Benchmark Access — It allows application developers and researchers to test and benchmark their applications. Users receive a limited number of node hours prior to applying for other calls.
- Development Access — This is designated for application developers and researchers who require a small number of node hours to develop, test, and optimise their applications.
- AI and Data-Intensive Applications Access — It is open mainly to small and medium-sized enterprises, startups, and public sector entities, who require access to supercomputing resources to perform artificial intelligence (AI) and data-intensive tasks.
- Regular Access — It is designated for users from private and public sectors whose projects require large-scale resources or frequent access to significant computational resources and data repositories.
- Extreme-Scale Access — It is designated for high-impact and high societal gain innovative research applications requiring large amount of computational resources, data repositories, and support.
For more about the EuroHPC JU calls, see here.
Read also about funding opportunities for supercomputing projects.
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