EuroHPC JU Access Call for AI and Data-Intensive Applications
The call is designed to serve industry organisations, small to medium enterprises (SMEs), startups, as well as public sector entities, requiring access to supercomputing resources to perform artificial intelligence and data intensive activities.
Business Category
Cloud, Edge and InfrastructureDetails
- Status: OPEN
- Reference: EUROHPC JU CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR AI AND DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS ACCESS MODE
- Publication date: 5 March 2024
- Opening date: 5 March 2024
- Deadline model: Multiple cut-off
- Deadline dates: 15 Apr 2024, 10:00 / 14 Jun 2024, 10:00 (CEST)
Description
The EuroHPC JU AI and Data-Intensive Applications Access call aims to support ethical artificial intelligence, machine learning, and in general, data-intensive applications, with a particular focus on foundation models and generative AI (e.g. large language models).
The call is intended to serve industry organisations, small to medium enterprises (SMEs), startups, as well as public sector entities, requiring access to supercomputing resources to perform artificial intelligence and data-intensive activities.
EuroHPC Systems
The supercomputer systems and their operations provided for the AI and Data-Intensive Applications Access call by EuroHPC JU Hosting Entities are:
(*The above EuroHPC systems are sorted in order to show the last available system that entered production. **The resources are displayed in node hours.)
For more technical details on our supercomputers, you can visit the documentation pages provided by Hosting Entities on the petascale systems Vega, Karolina, MeluXina, and on the pre-exascale systems LUMI, Leonardo, and MareNostrum5, available for this call.
Call details
Opening: The call is continuously open, with pre-defined cut-off dates that will trigger the evaluation of the proposals submitted up to this date.
Start date: The maximum time-to-resources-access of one (1) month after the date of cut-off.
Type of access: The allocations are granted for one (1) year (Single-year access).
Timeline:
- Communication of allocation decision: Mid-May 2024 / Mid-July 2024
- Allocation period for awarded proposals: June 2024 – June 2025 / August 2024 – August 2025
- Submission of Progress / Final Reports for continuation proposals: Within three (3) months after the completion of the project (via the platform on the submission form)
To note: These are pilot cut-off dates. Future cut-off dates will be published at a later time (bimonthly, every second month).
The evaluation will be based on the technical review and expert peer-review of all proposals. Award decisions will follow a first-arrived-first-served order and will be assessed according to three criteria of: excellence, innovation and impact, and quality of implementation.
More information can be found here.