Deadline
31 december 2025
Code
EUROHPC-2024-CEI-AI-01
The EuroHPC JU will deploy AI-dedicated supercomputing and service infrastructures to support the further development of a highly competitive and innovative AI Ecosystem in the European Union.
Two distinct calls for expressions of interest, each tailored to different types of hosting entities have been launched:
- Call for expression of interest for the selection of existing Hosting Entities of EuroHPC supercomputers to acquire an advanced experimental AI-optimised supercomputing platform (optional) and to establish an AI Factory (EUROHPC-2024-CEI-AI-01)
- Call for expression of interest for the selection of Hosting Entities for the acquisition of an AI-optimised supercomputer or the upgrade of an existing EuroHPC supercomputer with AI capabilities, an advanced Experimental AI-optimised supercomputing platform (optional), and the establishment of an AI Factory (EUROHPC-2024-CEI-AI-02)
The calls shall remain continuously open until 31 December 2025 with pre-defined cut-off dates. The first cut-off deadline for applications is 4 November 2024 at 17:00 CET, with subsequent ones every three months.
Programma,
The EuroHPC JU is a legal and funding entity, created in 2018 and reviewed in 2021 by Council Regulation (EU) 2021/1173. This regulation was recently amended in 2024 by means of Council Regulation (EU) 2024/1732, with the mission to:
- Develop, deploy, extend, and maintain in the EU a world-leading federated, secure, and hyper-connected supercomputing, quantum computing, service, and data infrastructure ecosystem;
- Support the development and uptake of demand-oriented and user-driven innovative and competitive supercomputing systems based on a supply chain that will ensure components, technologies, and knowledge, limiting the risk of disruptions and the development of a wide range of applications optimised for these systems;
- Widen the use of that supercomputing infrastructure to a large number of public and private users and support the development of key HPC skills for European science and industry;
- Develop and operate AI Factories located around EuroHPC supercomputing facilities to support the growth of a highly competitive and innovative AI ecosystem in Europe.
To equip Europe with a world-leading supercomputing infrastructure, the EuroHPC JU has already procured nine supercomputers, located across Europe. Three of these EuroHPC supercomputers are now ranked among the world’s top 10 most powerful supercomputers: LUMI in Finland, Leonardo in Italy and MareNostrum 5 in Spain.
Regardless of their location in Europe, European scientists and users from the public sector and industry can benefit from these EuroHPC supercomputers via the EuroHPC Access Calls. This access enables them to advance science and support the development of a wide range of applications with industrial, scientific, and societal relevance for Europe. In this context, 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).
