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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.

Details

Status
Open
Reference
EUROHPC JU CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR AI AND DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS ACCESS MODE
Publication date
5 March 2024
Opening date
Deadline model
Multiple cut-off
Deadline dates
15 Apr 2024, 10:00 / 14 Jun 2024, 10:00 / 11 Oct 2024, 10:00 / 22 Nov 2024, 10:00 (CET)

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:

EuroHPC Systems Available for AI Access

(*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 VegaKarolina, MeluXina, and on the pre-exascale systems LUMILeonardo, 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 & workflow:

  • Decision: 1. Mid-May 2024 / 2. Mid-July 2024 / 3. Mid-November 2024 / 4. Mid-December 2024 / (for respective cut offs);
  • Allocation: 1. June 2024 – June 2025 /  2. August 2024 – August 2025 / 3. November 2024 – November 2025 / 4. January 2025 – January 2026;
  • Progress / Final Reports submission: Within three (3) months after the completion of the project (via the platform on the submission form).

 

Workflow

 

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 on call details, eligibility, assessment criteria and obligations for applicants and for awarded projects for AI and Data-Intensive Applications Access Mode can be found in the Documents section below.

 

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Documents

AI and Data-Intensive Applications Access - Full Call Details
AI and Data-Intensive Applications Access - Terms of Reference
Technical Guidelines - AI and Data-Intensive Applications Access
EuroHPC JU Access Policy
TEMPLATE | AI and Data-Intensive Applications Access - Project Scope and Plan
TEMPLATE | AI and Data-Intensive Applications Access - Progress Report
TEMPLATE | AI and Data-Intensive Applications Access - Final Report