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Superpočítač Leonardo má výkon približne 250 PFlop/s, pričom celková alokácia dostupná pre slovenské projekty je 56 000 GPU nód-hodín a 25 000 CPU nód-hodín ročne.  Computing Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, preto v spolupráci s National Supercomputing Center, to access Leonardo's computing resources.Given the size of the allocation, support will be provided to a smaller number of projects, primarily those that require simultaneous utilization of a large number of computing nodes.

Access is open to all fields of science and research, and eligible applicants are from Slovak public universities or institutions of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Supported projects should enable progress and innovation in their chosen area, with added value for addressing societal and/or technological challenges in Slovakia.

Applications used in projects should be thoroughly tested, demonstrating high efficiency and scalability on HPC systems or the need for extensive simulations that require a significant amount of CPU/GPU time. These should be highly parallelized applications capable of efficiently utilizing the available resources, the allocation of which would be challenging on the current national HPC infrastructureDevana supercomputer  ). The computational power requirement and resource utilization must be clearly and comprehensively described in the proposal. You can find the specifications of individual Leonardo modules HERE.

Výzva je otvorená do 31.1. 2024. Vyhodnotenie a vybrané projekty budú zverejnené dva týždne po uzávierke, úspešní riešitelia budú o ďalšom postupe informovaní mailom. Jednotlivé projekty budú hodnotené odborným personálom VS SAV a NSCC s ohľadom na vedecký prínos a čo najefektívnejšie využitie výpočtových kapacít. Projekty s maximálnou dĺžkou trvania 12 mesiacov je možné podať prostredníctvom používateľského portálu register.nscc.sk  . Po registrácii je potrebné vyplniť formulár v sekcii The projecty / Leonardo projekt.

Before submitting an application, we ask interested parties to thoroughly familiarize themselves with the conditions of this call..

In case of any questions or uncertainties, please contact us at eurocc@nscc.sk

Standard access to high-performance computing resources is open to all areas of science and research, especially for larger-scale projects. These projects should demonstrate excellence in the respective fields and a clear potential to bring innovative solutions to current social and technological challenges. In the application, it is necessary to demonstrate the efficiency and scalability of the proposed calculation strategies and methods in the HPC environment. The necessary data on the performance and parameters of the considered algorithms and applications can be obtained within the Testing Access.

Allocations are awarded for one (1) year with the option to apply for extension, if necessary. Access is free of charge, provided that all requirements defined in the Terms of reference  are met. Submitted projects are evaluated from a technical point of view by the internal team of CC SAS and SK NSCC, and the quality of the scientific and research part is always evaluated by two independent external reviewers.

Call opening date: 6.10.2023
Call closing date: 31.10. 2023, 17:00 CET
Communication of allocation decision: Within 2 weeks of project submission.
Začiatok doby alokácie: najneskôr 16. 11. 2023

Eligibility: Scientists and researchers from Slovak public universities and the Slovak Academy of Sciences, as well as from public and state administration organizations and private enterprises registered in the Slovak Republic, can apply for standard access to HPC. Access is provided exclusively for civil and non-commercial open-science research and development. Interested parties from private companies should first contact the National Competence Centre for HPC.

Allocation period: 1 year

Overall allocation offered in the Call: 26 M CPU core-hours and 92k GPU-hours

Available systems: Devana supercomputer  universal CPU and accelerated GPU module

Expected project outcomes:

• Final report within 2 months from the end of the project.
• Peer-review and other publications in domestic and foreign scientific periodicals with acknowledgments in the pre-defined wording, reported through the user portal.
• Active participation in the Slovak HPC conference organized by the coordinator of this call (poster, other contribution).
• Participation in dissemination activities of the coordinator (interview, article in the HPC magazine, etc.).

With five European partners contributing in the project, NGI Search will provide five Open Calls by the spring 2024 and distribute up to 150,000 € to each project, with the support of a dedicated team, an Advisory Board and 10 added-value services.

WHO CAN APPLY?

Academic researchers, hi-tech startups and SMEs can benefit from the NGI Search project based on five Open Calls. Each call will onboard a new cohort of projects to join the mentoring programme which helps implementing and adopting their projects, through the following added-value services:

• Technology Services: Mentoring and Advice, Beta Testing Campaigns, Link to Standards and Foundation
• Business Services: Market Readiness, Pitching Training, Business Modeling and Coaching
• Innovation Services: Open Source Licensing, Market Landscaping and Research, Open Science Advice, Content Creation Support for Showcasing Results

NGI SEARCH OPEN CALLS

Open Call #4: December 2023 & January 2024

Open Call #5: March & April 2024

Informácie k otvorenej výzve NGI Search

The Open Call deadline is the 1st of February 2023, at 17:00 CET

Selected projects will benefit in a number of ways:

• Joining the NGI SEARCH Support Programme with a duration of up to 12 months
• Receiving funding of up to €50,000 if the applicant is a natural person applying on their behalf or up to €150,000 if the applicant is applying as an organisation
• Option to receive Technical, Business and Innovation mentoring provided by the NGI Search project partners

For more information follow the link HERE

This call is targeting HPC applications with high-impact and high-gain innovative research. The call will be open to all fields of science, industry and public sector justifying the need for and the capacity to use extremely large allocations in terms of compute time, data storage and support resources.

The call is open from 28. September 2022 2022 a deadline na podávanie žiadostí je 28. September tohto roka. V rámci tejto výzvy máte možnosť získať strojový čas na pre-exascale superpočítačoch LUMI and Leonardo More details including the amount of offered resources in terms of node hours and storage hours will be available on the webpage of PRACE.

Submission of applications will be done through the PRACE-calls portal.The call will be open for all categories of applications (Scientific, Industry and Public Sector) defining three distinctive tracks respectively for each category. The evaluation will be based on the technical review and scientific peer-review of all proposals. Award decisions will follow the ranking of proposals according to three criteria of:

• Excellence.
• Innovation and impact.
• Quality of implementation.

The allocations will be granted for a period of one year.

More information.

Access is guaranteed within two weeks of the application deadline (application deadlines are usually set once a month). The evaluation of submitted projects will take place on a fixed date at monthly intervals. The objectives of the individual modes of access within this proposal are:

• Benchmark calls are designed for code scalability tests, the outcome of which is to be included in the proposal in a future EuroHPC Extreme Scale and Regular call. Users receive a limited number of node hours; the maximum allocation period is three (3) months.
• Development calls are designed for projects focusing on code and algorithm development and optimisation. This can be in the context of research projects from academia or industry, or as part of large public or private funded initiatives as for instance Centres of Excellence or Competence Centres. Users will typically be allocated a small number of node hours; the allocation period is one (1) year and is renewable up to 2 times.

Various systems will be available in each cut-off for the different Benchmark & Development Access modes. The exact amount of available node hours is subject to the EuroHPC systems participating in a given call and will be announced prior to the cut-off dates. For the first cut-off period the VEGA system resources (Slovenia) are available.

The next cut-off dates for proposals are:

1 December 2023 – 11:00 AM CET

More detailed information can be found on HERE.

Do you need some help or have questions? Do not hesitate to contact us.

Resource Allocation

The Call for Proposals for EuroHPC JU Regular Access Mode is continuously open, with a maximum time-to-resources-access (start-date) of 4 months after the cut-off date.

Project Extension

The allocations are granted for one (1) year with the option for projects to apply for a continuation. This continuation shall be duly justified, limited to a maximum of one (1) additional year, and will depend on an assessment of their ongoing awarded project.

Applicants (Principal Investigators) can only have one Regular Access awarded at any given time.

Computing Resources

The computer systems and their operations provided for the Regular Access call by EuroHPC JU Hosting Entities are: Vega, located in Slovenia, MeluXina, located in Luxemburg, Karolina, located in the Czech Republic, and Discoverer, located in Bulgaria.

Eligible Researchers

Researchers from academia, research institutes, public authorities and industry established or located in an EU Member State or in a country associated to Horizon 2020 are eligible to apply (for further details see Section 2– “Eligibility criteria” in the Regular Access call “Terms of Reference” document).

Application Tracks for Regular Access Mode

The Scientific Access Track Open to all fields of science, will call for applications with a case to enable progress of science in the domains covered. These applications are expected to be able to justify the need for large allocations in terms of compute time, data storage and support resources because they are significantly contributing to the progress in their domain. The Scientific Track prioritises 75% of the total resources available at each cut-off period.

The Industry Access Track Prioritises 20% of the total resources available allocated for the representative, while the main solver must be of the industry.

The Public Administration Access Track Prioritises 5% of the total resources available for this cut-off period for proposals with a Principal Investigator from the public sector.

The EuroHPC JU Access Resource Committee, composed of leading international scientists and engineers, ranks the proposals received and produces a recommendation to award EuroHPC JU resources based on scientific and technical excellence.

More information.

Project tracks and benefits

Track A – Planning Technology

• Track A is for innovators who want to contribute planning technology to the AIPlan4EU ecosystem.
• We seek all kinds of software tool/library/technology related to planning.
• Opportunity to make your planning engine more widely accessible and €60.000 for each project, up to 4 projects.

Track B – Integration of New Use-Cases

• Track B is intended for a consortium of two partners: one partner will be a use-case provider and the other will typically have expertise in planning and/or software development. Together, they will work in solving a planning use-case, exploiting the capabilities of the unified planning framework. jednotného rámca plánovania.
• We offer a funded opportunity to explore the benefits of AI Planning for the use-case owner with €90.000 for the winning consortium.

Track C – Technology-Specific Bridge for Existing Use-Case

• Track C is intended for companies, organizations and individuals who have expertise in software development and/or planning and want to integrate an existing use-case with the unified planning framework, a software library developed by the AIPlan4EU project that offers planning-related capabilities in a general and convenient way.
• €60.000 for each TSB provider.

Deadline 31 January 2023, 17h CET

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REACH will support +100 business ideas from SMEs and select among them 30 solid business cases through a total of three open calls in the coming three years, distributing a total amount of €3.5M.

Benefits

• Equity free fuding up to €120K
• Access to large corporations and their industrial data sets
• Access to digital and business skills
• Reach toolbox for secure and trusted data value chains 
• Big data computing infrastructure
• Access to private investment
• Visibility

PROGRAMME FIT

• Individual SME experiment: Data Driven SMEs or Startups solving challenges and experiments.
• Collaborative SME experiment: Several data driven SMEs will conduct different experiments under a common DVC theme or Data Provider’s challenge. This way of collaboration will be fostered by REACH partners, for example, identifying synergies among applicants along the incubation and facilitating their collaboration. The consortium will aim 20% of the experiments progressing on this collaborative scheme to contribute towards the DVC concept.
• The use of big data tools is needed.

Criteria which define SME (See Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC)

• Applicant’s headcount in Annual Work Unit (AWU) less than 250.
• Applicant’s annual turnover less or equal to €50 million or annual balance sheet total, less or equal to €43 million.

REACH will hold two Info Webinar on January 20th, 2023, where applicants can learn more about the programe, the benefits of joining, as well as meet the consortium partners.

Deadline: 21 FEBRUARY 2023 | 5 PM CET

More information.